"Norman Lynagh" wrote in news:fulnrtFqgn7U1
@mid.individual.net:

The current rainfall deficit in Tideswell is quite substantial. As of
yesterday the following are the figures:

30-day running total: 52% of average
60-day running total: 41% of average
90-day running total: 35% of average
120-day running total: 33% of average
180-day running total: 67% of average
365-day running total: 91% of average

I appreciate that seasonal variation has a part to play in these
figures but, on average, the driest months of the year here are April
and September and these months don't come into the 30-day to 120-day
totals
shown above, apart from a few days of April in the 120-day total.


I haven't carried out the running totala analysis but my driest months
in St Albans are also Setember and April closely followed by March.
August rainfall is 9% above average based on records starting in 2002.

2018 had a wet first 5 months followed by a very dry June and July,
looking at the the charts September is likely to start dry and remain
that way for some days.

Alan