Jonathan Stott wrote:
Keith (Southend) wrote:
I was wondering whether I was the driest in the Country so far this
January as rain seems to falling copiously around the Country.
Currently I have had 15.2mm (Upto and Incl. 7th).

12.2mm here, including a massive 0.3mm so far today. (Canterbury)

Also, what is the Water deficit situation now, are the water
companies still bleating?

Well, not exactly bleating. We still have a hosepipe ban here, but
restrictions in other parts of the South East were lifted a little
while ago.

Not true unless you exclude the whole of the Three Valleys company from
being in the SE. The hosepipe ban is still in force according to the
website. Thames water also have their ban in force.

Alan

Ron Button wrote:

This is a note for Will really, can those reservoir levels be true ?.
Seeing your posts lately and 59mm of rain already this month ,doesn't any of
that get into Cornwall ?

I don't see why SW Water should lie, and Stithians does look low.

Yes, some of that rain does get into Cornwall!
www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html

Graham
Penzance

Current rainfall here in January is 9.4mm. 6.6mm of that fell last
night. Today it was raining at 5pm but the rain soon stopped and
amounted to just 0.2mm.

There's only been about 3 days since the beginning of December with any
lengthy spells of rain during the day (13th, 29th and 31st Dec). Most
of the heaviest rain has been at night but even then there's not been
much. Just 41mm since 1st December.

Richard Slessor,
Hazlehead, Aberdeen

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:17:38 UTC, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:

I was wondering whether I was the driest in the Country so far this
January as rain seems to falling copiously around the Country.
Currently I have had 15.2mm (Upto and Incl. 7th).

As of 7th, January's rainfall was 20.5 mm at Takeley in NW Essex -
last year whole of January was 18 mm (from memory)

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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:49:00 UTC, "Alan Gardiner"
wrote:

Not true unless you exclude the whole of the Three Valleys company from
being in the SE. The hosepipe ban is still in force according to the
website. Thames water also have their ban in force.

I'm also in Three Valleys area. They do get a lot of their water from
boreholes, but Takeley, NW Essex, got 730 mm last year relative to the
average from my records of 660 mm. One does wonder how much longer
they can justify the ban ... not that I expect to use a hosepipe
anytime soon :-)

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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:19:35 UTC, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

Lowest, realistically, is 0.6mm at Loftus (N Yorks) ... there has
been a very active orographic enhancement / rain-shadow effect
in operation this month resulting in less than 4mm falling down the
eastern side of the UK from Banffshire to The Wash., compared
with 150mm in the SW highlands.

I'll check with my brother (near Market Rasen, Lincs) but I don't
think it's been as dry as that.

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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:19:35 UTC, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

Lowest, realistically, is 0.6mm at Loftus (N Yorks) ... there has
been a very active orographic enhancement / rain-shadow effect
in operation this month resulting in less than 4mm falling down the
eastern side of the UK from Banffshire to The Wash., compared
with 150mm in the SW highlands.

I'll check with my brother (near Market Rasen, Lincs) but I don't
think it's been as dry as that.

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3.0mm today has nearly doubled our total to 6.6mm, I woul have thought
Market Rasen would have had more as it's to the West of the Wolds and nearer
frontal activity to the South.
Loftus gets a double rain shadow effect as it's to the East of the NY Moors.

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Philip Eden wrote:
"Jennikhbm (Suffolk)" wrote:
"Keith (Southend)" wrote:
Lowest rainfall so far this month is 0.4mm at Shap (Cumbria) which
is plainly wrong and demonstrates yet another AWS site where the
rain-gauge is presently u/s. We have already had St Athan, High
Wycombe, Aldergrove, Durham, Ronaldsway and probably others
that I can't recall off hand which have failed since Christmas.

I notice both Stornoway and Tiree have been missing yesterday at least.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net