My total for May was 18.4 mm, barely 40% of the 1971 - 2000 mean.This makes
it the driest May here since 1998, but May 1990 was even drier.The total for
20005 so far is 168mm which is 68% of the mean, and the first 5 months of
the year have been the driest since 1997. In 1997 a wet June followed the
dry sequence of months.
Peter Clarke
Ewell
Epsom 55m