The current dry spell is quietly becoming quite significant.

The 50 day rolling rainfall total is now 40.2mm, the lowest since May
'97. What makes it even more interesting is that this is not occuring
during the normal dry period for Cornwall (April-July).
(My highest 50 day running total being 462.8 on 1st January 2003)

Also the average Max this month has been 18.6 (19.1, 19.2, 18.6, 19.3,
19.7, 19.1, 18.1, 19.2, 16.8, 17.7, 17.8). The lowest Max's this
Autumn being 15.2 & 15.3 on 26th/27th Septermber. The SST is still 16C
( http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/PTUK21.TIF ) only a degree lower
than late July.

Fairly [OT] but a few pics taken today at www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/NG.html

'Andsome afternoon.

Graham
Penzance

On 11 Oct, 19:00, Graham Easterling
wrote:
The current dry spell is quietly becoming quite significant.

The 50 day rolling rainfall total is now 40.2mm, the lowest since May
'97. What makes it even more interesting is that this is not occuring
during the normal dry period for Cornwall (April-July).
(My highest 50 day running total being 462.8 on 1st January 2003)

Also the average Max this month has been 18.6 (19.1, 19.2, 18.6, 19.3,
19.7, 19.1, 18.1, 19.2, 16.8, 17.7, 17.8). The lowest Max's this
Autumn being 15.2 & 15.3 on 26th/27th Septermber.

Graham
Penzance

October 2004 couldn't have been more different www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/PzStorm.PDF

Graham
Penzance

Graham,

Use the link below to see the 12 month rolling England & Wales
Rainfall for 1950 - 2007 (Sep) that I have created.
http://s2.excoboard.com/forums/16030...331/406174.jpg

Source data comes from
http://www.metoffice.com/research/ha...HadEWP_act.txt

For 1900 - 1949 use link below.
http://s2.excoboard.com/forums/16030...331/406175.gif

The 50 day rolling rainfall total is now 40.2mm, the lowest since May
'97.

Graham

During the last 50 days only 37.5mm has fallen here. The last
significant rainfall fell on the 20th of August. It certainly has been
a lovely spell of weather recently, very summer-like during the middle
part of the day. The garden is very dry now but I'm refusing to water
it. Tom and chilli plants are still producing fruits, as well as the
aubergines, cucumbers are struggling a bit in the dry condtions.
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Nick G
Ottervally, Devon