Peter Clarke wrote:
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

Yes, it is getting rather dry. My total of 32.6 mm (58%) gives
me the seventh consecutive dry month, for which the total is 59% of
normal. The 12-month running total is 617 mm, which is 75% of normal.
Driest May here was 1989 with only 2.2 mm. (Starting 1983).

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.