In the UK a 'drought' is a sustained rain-free period of 14 days or more in any region. You may recall recently I dropped one of my analogies into a comment about some event on a slot being 'as rare as a drought in Scotland'. Well, talk about egg-on-face as yep, in May many parts of Scotland had lots of sunshine, temperatures of 24-27c and technically a bloody drought....
May was the warmest on record in the UK, and the sunniest since 1989. There ya go. That is despite some torrential thunderstorms and constant sticky cloudy humidity for the last week before this weekend in most of England.