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Blooms and rainbows greet summer's start

News imageGill Helps A sea view featuring a curved pier in the distance with a short jetty in front of it. A vessel, possibly a dredger, lies between them. In the foreground is a road and low buildings in front of a strip of sandy shore. The weather is sunny, with broken high cloud and a large flat cloud prominent in the foreground.Gill Helps
Typical summer weather at Sunderland, with clouds and sunshine jostling for position

The week marking the start of meteorological summer saw a mixed bag of weather, with sunshine, cloudy skies, wind and rain.

As always, our weather watchers have been out and about capturing scenes across north-east England and Cumbria.

Here are some of their images.

News imageFigaro View of Tynemouth Pier, a lighthouse at the end of it, stretching into the sea. In the foreground, to the left is a bank of valerian in bloom, the flowers in shades of red, purple and white.Figaro
Valerian in bloom provide a blaze of summer colour in front of Tynemouth pier
News imagePuffed Runner A mare and foal graze, oblivious to the mist rolling down a mountainside in the background. The ground is lush short grass with tufts of longer, reed-like grass growing in random clumps. The mare is dark brown and pictured from the rear with its head down as it munches. The foal is black and stands side on with its head close to the larger horse's right shoulder.Puffed Runner
A grazing mare and foal remain oblivious to the dramatic mist rolling down a mountainside near Keswick
News imageStan View of a garden with the corner of a lawn bordered by a neat hedge to the right and shrubs and some white and purple flowers to the left. In the centre is a tree in full leaf next to a tall conifer and another, shorter tree in the right foreground. Further trees can be seen in the background. A full rainbow arches above the scene in a blue sky with hazy cloud.Stan
No reports of a pot of gold found in Middlesbrough, despite the appearance of a gloriously full rainbow
News imageSarah n Essie View of a heavy shower of rain seen through a window. The glass and the water slightly distort the seaside scene featuring signpost, a set of metal railings and a small shed-like building with a pitched slate roof.Sarah n Essie
Salturn-by-the-Sea was swamped by a brief but heavy summer shower

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