"Nick G" wrote:

My recording of 88.0 mm for the Dec-Feb period puts Worcester on par with
the winters in the early 1930's for dryness. And yet I would have thought
that Worcester's rainfall would generally be slightly higher than the SE
of England, so this makes 88.0 mm even more unusual.

Actually Worcester is drier than much of the SE, especially those
areas south of the Thames where southwesterlies dump lots of rain.
Also, you can't really compare a single site with a regional
average ... you would expect a single site to have wider
extremes than an area.

I checked out the Pershore figures for some of those dry
winters (i.e. DJF):
2004-05 91mm
1991-92 102mm
1975-76 74mm
1963-64 37mm
1962-63 95mm

and Worcester/Perdiswell:
1933-34 79mm
1931-32 79mm

Philip Eden