Though I dont know for sure what the driest 3 month period at Oxford
since rainfall records began in 1767 is, I have checked two years of
possible interest -

1893 March, April & May had a total of 34mm at the Radcliffe
Observatory, Oxford

For August, Sept & October the year that came to mind was 1947....the
total that year for Aug-Oct was 55mm (suspect some areas were
considerably drier as Aug 1947 had 15mm in Oxford compared to zero
rainfall in parts of Kent)

Regards
Jonathan Webb


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In uk.sci.weather on Mon, 6 Oct 2003 at 07:03:45, Vidcapper wrote :
I may be jumping the gun here a little since we're only a week into
October, but does anyone have any stats on this?

I'd imagine 1976 must be in there somewhere, but that was some years
before I kept my own records.

Since I've kept records, it's been Jun-Aug'95 with 55.8mm, but the
driest Aug-Oct in 20 years was 138.1mm, so that looks certain to be
smashed out of sight

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