"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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Although as pointed out elsewhere, the lack of rainfall for this October
is not particularly remarkable, taking the last three months together
(August, September & October so far), then the total rainfall for Hurn
(Bournemouth) is 93 mm, representing 43% of the 1971-2000 average.
Looking back at the record made available on the Met Office web site,
since 1957 there have only been two drier such periods: 1972 (81 mm) and
the driest, 1978 (67 mm), which latter included the driest October at that
station in the past 50 years. November 1978 was also very dry: the driest
such-named month in that period.
Looking at the ensemble output (GFES) I suspect we'll catch up a bit;
integrating the output from the 06Z run for our closest grid-point we
should put on roughly another 10 mm, which still means a dry spell
overall. The soil is drying out markedly again (at least on top) with
several days of strong sunshine recently. Over the last week, we've
averaged over 6 hours of 'bright' sunshine (KZS) each day, though the
sunshine total looks like being down on the month overall.
Martin.
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Martin Rowley
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Not only that, but have we had more rain in July at Hurn than in
Aug/sept/oct (so far) put together?
Just checking my own figures, have had he 37.2mm in August, 21mm in Sept,
and 20mm in Oct to date. Total 78.2mm.
That is less than May (88.6mm, and July (108mm) and only just more than June
(76.8mm).
It looks certain that these last three months put together will be drier
then July, and probably May as well.
Jim, Bournemouth.