Extreme Derbyshire weather: Hottest day on record as we look back at freak snow and flash flooding in June

As Derbyshire swelters in the heatwave with the hottest June day recorded – we have looked back at extreme weather that the county has faced in June.

We might be experiencing a record-breaking heat but did you know that Buxton saw snow in June 1975?

The unseasonable weather forced the abandonment of a county cricket match between Derbyshire and Lancashire at the Buxton Cricket Club.

An inch of snow covered the pitch, while two days prior the players had been playing in warm summer weather.

Speaking at the time umpire Dickie Bird said: “When I went out to inspect the wicket, the snow was level with the top of my boots. I’d never seen anything like it.”

A few days later the country experienced the start of a heatwave which would last all summer.

Disaster struck the county on June 25, 2007 when flash flooding hit, leading to a ‘day of madness’.

People living in Tapton Terrace in Chesterfield had to be rescued by firefighters, people waded waist-high through the water in Clowne, businesses at Chesterfield’s Ravenside retail park and on Chatsworth Road were faced with a costly mopping up job and the A617 bypass from Chesterfield to Mansfield was under 2ft of water.

Thousands of homes were without power and trains were suspended. Ambergate was also hit hard by flooding after the River Derwent overflowed and forced businesses to shut.