Checked the rainfall for 2007 on the rainguage and it recorded 1318mm,
which is somewhat over the 860mm or so annual mean for the area.

Now I am not sure of the annual average for Ilkley, this is a guess
based on figures for the surrounding reservoirs on the hillsides above
Ilkley, in Wharfedale. The gauge is in my parent's garden (I don't have
a garden in Leeds!), at a height of 120m asl. Chelker Reservoir's* mean
precipitation is 880mm (223m asl), and March Ghyll Reservoir# 891mm
(198m asl). However these are 1941-1970 annual means so things might
have changed.

Bearing in the mind the droughts of 2007, this makes for a pretty
remarkable year - it would be interesting to know of any similar
anomolies in the east Pennines.

Dorian.


*on the A65 between Addingham and Draugton
# 2 miles north on Middleton Moor