Will Hand wrote:

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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So that is now two consecutive summer months with 100mm rainfall
after the 18mm so far today. A rare event indeed in these parts and no
such other occasion can I find since my rainfall records started in
2008. There have only been five other months with 100mm in that
period and August last year had 71.5 mm in one day. There have been
many months with figures in the 90's so it is clearly a bit of a
threshold.
Dave


I always count the months when it is *less* than 100 mm!

Monthly totals this year so far:

Jan 368 mm
Feb 371 mm
Mar 91 mm
Apr 139 mm
May 115 mm
Jun 75 mm (dry)
Jul 24 mm (very dry)

So 3 relatively dry months so far this year :-)

Will
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Yeah, but that is just normal for you Will. This is extreme in desert
Essex. 200mm in two months, 560 mm so far this year and no tumbling
hillside streams to take it away from the clay plains :-(