However hopes of a heatwave have been played down
A cold and wet start to the summer is set to improve from the middle of next week, forecasters have said.
READ MORE: All 60 food items recalled by Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Co-op, Sainsburys, Boots and Aldi in HUGE E.Coli alert "The jet stream dictates much of the UK’s weather and what we’ve got at the moment is the development of air, kind of, coming from the north and bringing down that cooler, polar arctic air mass over the UK which, in the summer, means the weather is cold on average.”
The British Retail Consortium warned last month that “gloomy, wet weather combined with the cost of living” had dampened spending in April. Gross domestic product fell flat following 55% more rainfall than normal that month, according to the Office for National Statistics . James Sproule, an economist at Handelsbanken, said the continued unusual weather means businesses can expect “similarly soggy results”.
Builders Merchant Federation CEO John Newcomb said the results reflected “a general lack of consumer confidence” and “were not helped by adverse weather conditions in February and March delaying work”.
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