On Jul 31, 9:04 am, Steve J wrote:
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 UKwww.bablakeweather.co.uk

Dinner parties? Don't do 'em but you'd be near the top of
the list. :-) Here in Warlingham I have had 63 months in 24 years
with 100 mm or more and 5 separate occasions with a hat-trick, all in
autumn/winter. These a Sept-Nov 84, Dec 89-Feb 90, Dec 94-Feb 95,
Nov 87-Jan 98 and Sept-Dec 2000 (4 months). But for Jan 2001 having a
meagre 98.5 the run would have been the 7 months to Mar 01. As for
summer months, I haven't even had one pair each with 100 mm.
My annual total is about 820 mm depending on which period
you take and I would guess this is considerably higher than your
figure. Maybe I should recalculate using a different limit to take
account of this difference. There has been nothing spectacular here
in the way of monthly total this summer though the morning of last
Friday week did its best with 60 mm in about 2 hours.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft, 169 m, TQ3516 5955.