Johnny Walker of Radio 2 fame announced this morning that it's been the
wettest August for nearly a hundred years , and the Bank Holiday weekend
would be hot ,i.e. 27c and sunny !
No that didn't come from the Daily Express but the Met Office he said.
Makes you wonder why we all bother......


RonB

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"Alan Gardiner" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:22:08 GMT, 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.

Wettest must mean the most rainfall; your experience could perhaps be
better described by working out the average humidity for a month or other
period of time. If the humidity is high then wet grass takes longer to
dry.

As an illustration the figure for June in St Albans was 72% and July 67%
with respective total rainfall amounts of 35mm and 79mm.



Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
101m ASL
19/08/2008 10:18:49