Peterborough weather expert shares 10 shocking stats that reveal how hot and dry this summer has been - and how desperately rain is needed

Peterborough experienced just 0.1mm of rainfall in July and recorded a maximum temperature of 33.4C, new data has revealed.

The city has experienced an incredibly hot and dry summer so far, with the Environment Agency last week declaring a drought for the Anglia region.

Peterborough has been under a hosepipe ban since Saturday, July 11, with each of Anglian Water’s six reservoirs now holding ‘below average’ water levels.

Meteorologist Trevor Pratt, who launched the Peterborough Weather Watch website in 2005, has collected data surrounding temperatures, rainfall and wind speed every day for nearly 21 years.

With no significant rainfall seen since early June, Peterborough remains in desperate need of a good downpour to replenish supplies.

Several light rain showers on Wednesday morning ( August 20) provided some light relief, but amounted to just 0.4mm, according to Trevor’s weather station.

The fact that those showers represent the most daily rainfall Peterborough has experienced since June 20 tells its own story.

Trevor has kindly shared 10 statistics taken from his weather station in south-east Peterborough which lay bare how hot and dry the summer of 2026 has been in reference to the past 20 summers.

You can find Trevor’s website here.

Peterborough’s hot and dry summer of 2026

1. In June 2026, Trevor recorded his highest June Maximum temperature, at 36.7C (on June 26), smashing his previous high in 2011 by some 4.1C.
2. June 2026 had a mean maximum of 23.5C, which is Trevor’s second-warmest mean maximum. June 2025 was his warmest mean maximum, at 24C.
3. June 2026 appears four times in Trevor’s top 20 warmest June temperatures since 2005.
4. Between June 23 and June 30, Trevor’s weather station did not record any rain. That dry theme carried on, into and through July, until he recorded a miniscule 0.1mm on July 26.
5. July 2026 was Trevor’s driest July on record, with just 0.1mm of rainfall. That was also his overall driest month in nearly 20 years of operating the weather station.
6. At 25.8C, July 2026 was Trevor’s second-warmest July maximum mean temperature. The warmest was 28C in 2006.
7. July 2026 was Trevor’s warmest July month, with a month mean of 20.8C. His warmest on record was 21.6C in 2006.
8. In July 2026, Trevor’s warmest maximum temperature was 33.4C, which was his ninth-warmest July maximum.
9. Trevor has recorded maximums at/over 30C on 12 days so far this year.
10. Trevor’s weather station has recorded 25C-plus on 36 days this year.