By Paul Homewood
The period between January and June this year was the driest in England since 1976, the Met Office has said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62303330
I have already pointed out that both 1996 and 2010 had drier starts to the year than this year. The BBC, of course, produced the above chart for England & Wales, so I assumed the reference to England was a typo. It turns out, however, that 2010 had a drier start for England & Wales, as well as just England:
2022 : 319.1mm
2010 : 305.1mm
Of course, a headline that says “Driest Start Since 2010” does not really have the same ring to it!