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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

What - no takers?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

August 1st-to date 36.6mm here. Looking at the records the previous 'driest
3 months' were April to June 1995 with 51.0mm and October to December 1983
with 55.8mm.
For January-September 2003 329.8mm (69% long term average) but 1996 had only
312mm (65%) for this period.
Fields here still very dry and dusty with deep cracks esp where London Clay
is exposed at the surface.
As Tom Bennett says the landscape from the air has a brown and parched look.
Flying over N.Essex and Suffolk recently (at the rather lower height of
4000'agl) one of the main features was the long dust trails being left by
tractors-no difficulty in judging surface wind direction there.

All the best

--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk