Although we have a couple of days to go, and some more rain expected
too by the looks of it, our annual rainfall total of 894.0mm so far
has already made this the wettest year in Coventry since 1912
(939.6mm).

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

"Steve J" wrote in message
...
Although we have a couple of days to go, and some more rain expected
too by the looks of it, our annual rainfall total of 894.0mm so far
has already made this the wettest year in Coventry since 1912
(939.6mm).

The England and Wales figure looks like just passing 1000mm,
around 7 or 8% above the 1971-2000 mean, and lower than
2004, 2002, and 2000.

Philip

On 29 Dec, 16:04, Steve J wrote:
Although we have a couple of days to go, and some more rain expected
too by the looks of it, our annual rainfall total of 894.0mm so far
has already made this the wettest year in Coventry since 1912
(939.6mm).

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UKwww.bablakeweather.co.uk

Hi, Steve,
Relatively dry here, 824.3mm so far. Driest since 2003 and then 1999.
1971-2000 estimated mean is 820.0mm (101%)
1996-2006 861.1mm (96%)
Ken
Copley, Teesdale

On 2007-12-29 18:34:02 +0000, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom said:
"Steve J" wrote in message
...
Although we have a couple of days to go, and some more rain expected
too by the looks of it, our annual rainfall total of 894.0mm so far
has already made this the wettest year in Coventry since 1912
(939.6mm).

The England and Wales figure looks like just passing 1000mm,
around 7 or 8% above the 1971-2000 mean, and lower than
2004, 2002, and 2000.


I don't know how you people manage living in swamps. Just 646 mm in
this part of east Scotland so far this year, and that's not
particularly dry for here.

Trevor
In the Sidlaws, near Dundee

On 29 Dec, 16:04, Steve J wrote:
Although we have a couple of days to go, and some more rain expected
too by the looks of it, our annual rainfall total of 894.0mm so far
has already made this the wettest year in Coventry since 1912
(939.6mm).

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UKwww.bablakeweather.co.uk

Looks like being around normal here, and certainly drier than 2006
(1254mm). In fact it looks almost certain that 10 of the last 16 years
will have been wetter. It also looks like beating my previous warmest
year (2003) by 0.1C.

Graham
Penzance

Although we have a couple of days to go, and some more rain expected
too by the looks of it, our annual rainfall total of 894.0mm so far
has already made this the wettest year in Coventry since 1912
(939.6mm).

I'm really surprised at that one Steve, thought it would have been
higher!

Here our highest rainfall total from 1960 to 1996 stood at 934.6 in 1966
but since 1997 we've gone well past that total on a number of occasions.

1997 941.8mm
1999 1033.6mm
2000 1127.3mm
2004 1009.2mm
2007 966.5mm (so far)

2002 also recorded 933.6mm, so we've had some very wet years in the last
11 years.

Weston Coyney weather station (North Staffordshire) 220 metres asl
--
Graham

"Trevor Harley" wrote in message
news:2007122919274216807-taharley@dundeeacuk...
On 2007-12-29 18:34:02 +0000, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom said:
"Steve J" wrote in message
...
Although we have a couple of days to go, and some more rain expected
too by the looks of it, our annual rainfall total of 894.0mm so far
has already made this the wettest year in Coventry since 1912
(939.6mm).

The England and Wales figure looks like just passing 1000mm,
around 7 or 8% above the 1971-2000 mean, and lower than
2004, 2002, and 2000.


I don't know how you people manage living in swamps. Just 646 mm in this
part of east Scotland so far this year, and that's not particularly dry
for here.

Trevor
In the Sidlaws, near Dundee
--------------------
Swamp - that's an ocean to me ;-)
488 mm

Dave, S.Essex.

On 29 Dec, 20:27, Graham wrote:

I'm really surprised at that one Steve, thought it would have been
higher!

Here our highest rainfall total from 1960 to 1996 stood at 934.6 in 1966
but since 1997 we've gone well past that total on a number of occasions.

1997 * *941.8mm
1999 * *1033.6mm
2000 * *1127.3mm
2004 * *1009.2mm
2007 * *966.5mm (so far)

Hi Graham

Our rainfall totals for the years above were as follows:

1997 608.6mm
1999 775.1mm
2000 801.2mm
2004 717.5mm

Remember, we are very much in a rain shadow area here, so we usually
miss the heaviest of the rain experienced elsewhere in the West
Midlands - the Birmingham Plateau has a profound effect on Coventry's
weather, arguably making it also the sunniest place in the West
Midlands.

In 2007 however, we were right on the dege of the June'July deluge,
though catching no where near as much rain as Hereford and
Worcestershire. I would be interested to see the Pershore annual
rainfall total when it is available, for example.

I do have some annual rainfall totals fpr 1870 to 1892 for Coventry,
but haven't checked them out yet, though 1872, 1876, 1878, 1880, and
1882 look like very high totals to me, perhaps too high - do you have
some RF totals for for E&W for that period, Philip I wonder?


Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Steve J wrote:
On 29 Dec, 20:27, Graham wrote:

I'm really surprised at that one Steve, thought it would have been
higher!

Here our highest rainfall total from 1960 to 1996 stood at 934.6 in 1966
but since 1997 we've gone well past that total on a number of occasions.

1997 941.8mm
1999 1033.6mm
2000 1127.3mm
2004 1009.2mm
2007 966.5mm (so far)

Hi Graham

Our rainfall totals for the years above were as follows:

1997 608.6mm
1999 775.1mm
2000 801.2mm
2004 717.5mm

Remember, we are very much in a rain shadow area here, so we usually
miss the heaviest of the rain experienced elsewhere in the West
Midlands - the Birmingham Plateau has a profound effect on Coventry's
weather, arguably making it also the sunniest place in the West
Midlands.

In 2007 however, we were right on the dege of the June'July deluge,
though catching no where near as much rain as Hereford and
Worcestershire. I would be interested to see the Pershore annual
rainfall total when it is available, for example.

I do have some annual rainfall totals fpr 1870 to 1892 for Coventry,
but haven't checked them out yet, though 1872, 1876, 1878, 1880, and
1882 look like very high totals to me, perhaps too high - do you have
some RF totals for for E&W for that period, Philip I wonder?


Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk


Here in North leeds rainfall figures as follows:
2002 988mm
2003 573mm
2004 821mm
2005 620mm
2006 678mm
2007 833mm

30 year average is 646mm for this area.

"Bob H" wrote in message
...
Steve J wrote:
On 29 Dec, 20:27, Graham wrote:

I'm really surprised at that one Steve, thought it would have been
higher!

Here our highest rainfall total from 1960 to 1996 stood at 934.6 in 1966
but since 1997 we've gone well past that total on a number of occasions.

1997 941.8mm
1999 1033.6mm
2000 1127.3mm
2004 1009.2mm
2007 966.5mm (so far)

Hi Graham

Our rainfall totals for the years above were as follows:

1997 608.6mm
1999 775.1mm
2000 801.2mm
2004 717.5mm

Remember, we are very much in a rain shadow area here, so we usually
miss the heaviest of the rain experienced elsewhere in the West
Midlands - the Birmingham Plateau has a profound effect on Coventry's
weather, arguably making it also the sunniest place in the West
Midlands.

In 2007 however, we were right on the dege of the June'July deluge,
though catching no where near as much rain as Hereford and
Worcestershire. I would be interested to see the Pershore annual
rainfall total when it is available, for example.

I do have some annual rainfall totals fpr 1870 to 1892 for Coventry,
but haven't checked them out yet, though 1872, 1876, 1878, 1880, and
1882 look like very high totals to me, perhaps too high - do you have
some RF totals for for E&W for that period, Philip I wonder?


Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk


Here in North leeds rainfall figures as follows:
2002 988mm
2003 573mm
2004 821mm
2005 620mm
2006 678mm
2007 833mm

30 year average is 646mm for this area.


St Albans rainfall figures are as follows:

2002 698mm
2003 446mm
2004 593mm
2005 518mm
2006 644mm
2007 723mm

The measurements are from a Davis VP1 station - a tipping bucket design.

Alan