On 29 Dec, 20:27, Graham wrote:

I'm really surprised at that one Steve, thought it would have been
higher!

Here our highest rainfall total from 1960 to 1996 stood at 934.6 in 1966
but since 1997 we've gone well past that total on a number of occasions.

1997 * *941.8mm
1999 * *1033.6mm
2000 * *1127.3mm
2004 * *1009.2mm
2007 * *966.5mm (so far)

Hi Graham

Our rainfall totals for the years above were as follows:

1997 608.6mm
1999 775.1mm
2000 801.2mm
2004 717.5mm

Remember, we are very much in a rain shadow area here, so we usually
miss the heaviest of the rain experienced elsewhere in the West
Midlands - the Birmingham Plateau has a profound effect on Coventry's
weather, arguably making it also the sunniest place in the West
Midlands.

In 2007 however, we were right on the dege of the June'July deluge,
though catching no where near as much rain as Hereford and
Worcestershire. I would be interested to see the Pershore annual
rainfall total when it is available, for example.

I do have some annual rainfall totals fpr 1870 to 1892 for Coventry,
but haven't checked them out yet, though 1872, 1876, 1878, 1880, and
1882 look like very high totals to me, perhaps too high - do you have
some RF totals for for E&W for that period, Philip I wonder?


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