Weird weather in the US, weird weather in the UK too. Here's a quote from Miles King, of the UK Grasslands Trust:

"What an increasingly bizarre year we are having with the weather – well bizarre is one word, awful is another. The first quarter of the year was exceptionally dry with only 116mm [of rain] - remember the drought? This has been followed by an amazing 191.75mm in April, an average May with 49.5mm, and this drenching June. The total so far for the second quarter is 397.5mm. That's nearly 4 times as much as in the first quarter. Let's hope the third quarter doesn't follow the same pattern."

Well, the third quarter did follow the same pattern - and we've had rain on the first two days of July too.