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Assuming it won't rain today, December 2008 has turned out to be my
driest December on record with a total of 13.2mm (24.8%). This narrowly
beats 1988 with 14.0mm and 1996 with 14.7mm. Local records from Bob
Pritchard show December 1963 with only 14.0mm
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"Keith (Southend)" wrote:

Assuming it won't rain today, December 2008 has turned out to be my driest
December on record with a total of 13.2mm (24.8%). This narrowly beats
1988 with 14.0mm and 1996 with 14.7mm. Local records from Bob Pritchard
show December 1963 with only 14.0mm
--

Keith ... I've just been putting together some of my national surveys for
December (and the year), and Shoeburyness was the driest place in the
UK with 12mm ... but December 1991 seemed to have been marginally
drier there.

Incidentally, both Eskdalemuir and Yeovilton passed their August
sunshine total in the last couple of days!

Philip


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Philip Eden wrote:
"Keith (Southend)" wrote:

Assuming it won't rain today, December 2008 has turned out to be my driest
December on record with a total of 13.2mm (24.8%). This narrowly beats
1988 with 14.0mm and 1996 with 14.7mm. Local records from Bob Pritchard
show December 1963 with only 14.0mm
--

Keith ... I've just been putting together some of my national surveys for
December (and the year), and Shoeburyness was the driest place in the
UK with 12mm ... but December 1991 seemed to have been marginally
drier there.

Incidentally, both Eskdalemuir and Yeovilton passed their August
sunshine total in the last couple of days!

Philip



My December 1991 came in with 15.0mm, of course it's all a hare's
whisker with these totals.

ps: I love the book, interesting reading, I'm a slow reader but I'm sure
I'll work my way through your book.

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e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:16:21 +0000, Keith (Southend) wrote:

Assuming it won't rain today, December 2008 has turned out to be my
driest December on record with a total of 13.2mm (24.8%). This narrowly
beats 1988 with 14.0mm and 1996 with 14.7mm. Local records from Bob
Pritchard show December 1963 with only 14.0mm


32mm here this month, 2001 only had 20mm.

Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
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31/12/2008 14:20:41
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Alan Gardiner wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:16:21 +0000, Keith (Southend) wrote:

Assuming it won't rain today, December 2008 has turned out to be my
driest December on record with a total of 13.2mm (24.8%). This narrowly
beats 1988 with 14.0mm and 1996 with 14.7mm. Local records from Bob
Pritchard show December 1963 with only 14.0mm


32mm here this month, 2001 only had 20mm.

Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
101m ASL
31/12/2008 14:20:41


Annual 2008

It's also been my coolest mean year since 1996, with a mean temperature
of 11.1°C compared to 10.2°C in 1996, although 2002 came in at 11.2°C.

My highest 12.0°C 2006, followed by 11.9°C 1990.
My lowest 9.7°C 1986.

Rainfall pretty much average for the year.

Sunshine 110% the norm.
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Philip Eden wrote:
"Keith (Southend)" wrote:

Assuming it won't rain today, December 2008 has turned out to be my
driest December on record with a total of 13.2mm (24.8%). This narrowly
beats 1988 with 14.0mm and 1996 with 14.7mm. Local records from Bob
Pritchard show December 1963 with only 14.0mm
--

Keith ... I've just been putting together some of my national surveys for
December (and the year), and Shoeburyness was the driest place in the
UK with 12mm ... but December 1991 seemed to have been marginally
drier there.

Incidentally, both Eskdalemuir and Yeovilton passed their August
sunshine total in the last couple of days!

Philip


My December 1991 came in with 15.0mm, of course it's all a hare's whisker
with these totals.

ps: I love the book, interesting reading, I'm a slow reader but I'm sure
I'll work my way through your book.

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

-------------------
I can echo that with the rain and the book, Philip. 16.1mm rainfall, Ron
kindly gave me a copy of the book.
Dave


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Incidentally, both Eskdalemuir and Yeovilton passed their August
sunshine total in the last couple of days!


Didn't quite manage to beat August's sunshine but it was close(ish) in the
end. A cloudy day on the 29th and today's mist sort of scuppered things.
Anyway, recorded 112.7 hours of lovely sunshine this month which is a very
respectable 45% of the total possible amount.

Looking back as this year, February, April & June all tied for the highest
proportion of sunshine total possible with 47%, whilst January and not
August had the least with 26%.

Sunshine for 2008 was 1732 hours which is slightly higher than 2007 (1723).
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