Alan White wrote:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 08:35:36 -0000, "Eskimo Will"
wrote:

At Princetown in
the 20th Century annual rainfall significantly (as revealed by an objective
T test) decreased. In the 21st Century, evidence from Haytor would suggect
that that drying trend has slowed but not reversed. My take on this is that
our climate is slowly getting drier in terms of annual rainfall.

Our annual rainfall is trending upwards See:-


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2009.52.10.png


Intuitively, that's what I would expect i.e. if some parts of the country have
a trend towards drier weather then others are likely to have a trend towards
wetter weather. Changes to the dominant wind directions are probably the key.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org