Coventry enjoys a position in the rain shadow of hills and mountains
to the west of the region, so months with more than 100mm of rain are
relatively rare locally (35 in the past 30 years), so to have three in
succession in summer is most unusual.

From our records, it would appear that this has only happened once
before from November 1876 to January 1877.

This seems to be further evidence for the extreme nature of local
rainfall this year.

For those non-statos out there, yes I can be very boring at dinner
parties - just ask my wife and family:-)

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk