"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
...
Once again, Cheltenham is performing this trick, which it seemed to
learn early last autumn.

Showers get intercepted by the Welsh mountains.
Rain belts from the north run into high pressure and die before here.
Rain belts from the south never quite make it up this far.

... or perhaps I'm just being paranoid?

BTW, where were the wettest & driest areas in June?

.... I tend to wait until Mr E has pronounced (via WeatherOnline or
elsewhere), but I did a quick recce around the CLIMAT reports and
results below (with additions from this newsgroup):

Following are taken from the CLIMAT reports at:-
http://meteocentre.com/climat_uk.html
(Not sure how much QC is undertaken on these)
and the EWR (ex Philip Eden/this newsgroup) = 94%

= 50%
Aberporth 46%
Bournemouth 44%
(Bracknell 47%)

50% =80%
(Cheltenham 58%)
London/HR 78%
Lyneham 55%
Manston 57%

80% =120%
Belfast 90%
Camborne 108%
(Copley 94%)
Leeming 108%
Manchester 101%
Shawbury 88%
Stornoway 113%
Tiree 111%
Valley 96%
Waddington 98%
Wattisham 85%

120% =150%
Eskdalemuir 138%
Kirkwall 140%
Lerwick 140%
(Motherwell 146%)

150%
Aberdeen 162%
Kinloss 320% ?!
Leuchars 182%

Martin.


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