Bob Martin wrote:
in 35831 20080818 191540 "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
Anyone else notice the bizarre notion that this is already
London's wettest August since 1917, which underpinned
a feature on "London Tonight" tonight?

At Hampstead the month's total to date is 45mm ... still well
short of 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, etc,etc!

Philip

There's more than one way of measuring "wettest".
Like amount of time when something is falling or has just fallen.
My lawn is dry enough to mow about once every 5-6 days.

I've had 9 August's wetter (so far) since 1978 here at Southend-on-Sea.

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Keith (Southend)
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