Some 11 species burst into spring early this year - some by more than two months, as temperatures in Britain soared in April and May - but then the UK experienced its wettest summer ever with a number of casualties in the UK's live music scene. Glastonbury got muddy and The Glade and Reading go through -but Truck was postponed and Fflam, Lovebox and Wakestock were all cancelled. Statistics from The Met Office show that an average of 358mm fell in the summer of 2007, just beating 1956 (358.4mm) and comfortably ahead of 1985 (342.7mm) and 1927 (336.2mm). Heavy rain in June saw severe flooding in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the Midlands. About 7,000 homes in Hull and more than 1,200 in Sheffield were affected. In July large areas of England and Wales were left inundated after torrential rainfall led to rivers bursting their banks. Seven people died when the River Severn burst its banks in Gloucestershire, and more than 350,000 people were left without running water after a treatment works was submerged and in all an estimated £2.7 billion of damages was caused. In 2007 the UK had
* The hottest Spring
* The wettest Summer
* The second warmest Winter
Globally this was the world's second warmest year since records began in 1860. Temperatures in Greece reached 46C - as the rains hit Northern Europe a heatwave hit Southern Europe. The President of the Royal Meteorological Society, Geraint Vaughn, had predicted global temperatures will rise between 2C and 4C telling the Observer newspaper (2nd September) that humanity had to be "far more aggressive in our attempts to reduce carbon dioxide output and our use of fossil fuels".
links
http://www.virtualfestivals.com/latest/news/3882
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/6910593.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6909633.stm
www.guardian.co.uk/weathernews
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/
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