June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

109.7 mm - 1987
100.8 mm - 1991

Local records I have show:
June 1971 with 148.7 mm (John Benford), 130.3 mm (Bob Pritchard)
June 1964 with 109.0 mm (Bob Pritchard)
1971 - For the record the following July was dry and reasonably warm,
August was average for rain and down on temperature.

18z to 18z
30.8 mm (1.21") 6th
26.0 mm (1.02") 27th

Temperatures:
+0.4°C mean above average.

Sunshine:
215.50 hours (105%)
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 at 07:12:13, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

How localised is this, given that a lot of southern England seems to
have had below average rainfall again?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Amazing! I thought it was a decent month.

"Keith (Southend)G" wrote in message
...
June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

109.7 mm - 1987
100.8 mm - 1991

Local records I have show:
June 1971 with 148.7 mm (John Benford), 130.3 mm (Bob Pritchard)
June 1964 with 109.0 mm (Bob Pritchard)
1971 - For the record the following July was dry and reasonably warm,
August was average for rain and down on temperature.

18z to 18z
30.8 mm (1.21") 6th
26.0 mm (1.02") 27th

Temperatures:
+0.4°C mean above average.

Sunshine:
215.50 hours (105%)
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

On Jul 2, 6:09*pm, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 at 07:12:13, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

How localised is this, given that a lot of southern England seems to
have had below average rainfall again?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Not very localised, if my figures are anything to go by. The rainfall
here was 97.7 mm, nearly twice normal. There was 38.8 mm on the 5th
alone, which was more than the total for previous 3 months. Even
without that fall it would still have been a wet month. It was the
wettest June since 1998.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.

On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 at 00:53:52, jbm wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
...

June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

How localised is this, given that a lot of southern England seems to
have had below average rainfall again?

Here in Northampton we only managed 29.7mm.

jim, Northampton

Unfortunately it's a little early for the Met Office monthly maps, yet.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

In article ,
jbm writes:
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message ...

On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 at 07:12:13, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

How localised is this, given that a lot of southern England seems to
have had below average rainfall again?

Philip Eden gives a figure for SE England of 132% and for SW England of
143%. But the Midlands had only 79%.

http://www.climate-uk.com/page2.html
--
John Hall
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Winston S Churchill (1874-1965)

John Hall wrote:

In article ,
jbm writes:
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message ...

On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 at 07:12:13, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

How localised is this, given that a lot of southern England seems to
have had below average rainfall again?

Philip Eden gives a figure for SE England of 132% and for SW England of
143%. But the Midlands had only 79%.

http://www.climate-uk.com/page2.html


96 percent in Tideswell. The Met Office considers us to be part of the East
Midlands.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

"John Hall" wrote in message
...
In article ,
jbm writes:
"John Hall" wrote in message
mon.co.uk.invalid...

In his column in Yesterday's Sunday Telegraph, Philip gave
Moulton Hall,
near Northampton, as the driest place in the country with, IRRC,
23mm.
That would tie in well with the Pitsford figure, as well as your own
figure as reported in a previous post.

Not sure about "Moulton Hall". Not a name as such used round here,
but assuming it is in the village of Moulton, that's about a mile
from here, half way to Pitsford.

I think my memory may have been faulty, and that perhaps it should
have
been Moulton End.

snips

.... on the map I have which displays the 'official' names of Met
Office data points (a few years old now), the station indicated as a
'climatological' site that fits is called .... " Northampton, Moulton
Park "

Link to BADC listing here ...

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/midas...midas_stations

Martin.


--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

I've been monitoring Shoeburyness and according to the rainfall figures
given with their obs the June total was only 85.4mm. Shoebury is the
driest place in the country, I believe, so perhaps they could get less than
Southend? They had something of a cloudburst on the 5th with 23.0mm.
Depends where the heavy showers fall, I suppose.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.


"Keith (Southend)G" wrote in message
...

June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

109.7 mm - 1987
100.8 mm - 1991

Local records I have show:
June 1971 with 148.7 mm (John Benford), 130.3 mm (Bob Pritchard)
June 1964 with 109.0 mm (Bob Pritchard)
1971 - For the record the following July was dry and reasonably warm,
August was average for rain and down on temperature.

18z to 18z
30.8 mm (1.21") 6th
26.0 mm (1.02") 27th

Temperatures:
+0.4°C mean above average.

Sunshine:
215.50 hours (105%)
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

On Jul 5, 7:35*pm, "Ian Bingham"
wrote:
I've been monitoring Shoeburyness and according to the rainfall figures
given with their obs the June total was only 85.4mm. * *Shoebury is the
driest place in the country, I believe, so perhaps they could get less than
Southend? *They had something of a cloudburst on the 5th with 23.0mm.
Depends where the heavy showers fall, I suppose.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.

"Keith (Southend)G" *wrote in message

...

June 2011 - Southend-on-Sea.

Rain 114.8 mm (228%)

109.7 mm - 1987
100.8 mm - 1991

Local records I have show:
June 1971 with 148.7 mm (John Benford), 130.3 mm (Bob Pritchard)
June 1964 with 109.0 mm (Bob Pritchard)
1971 - For the record the following July was dry and reasonably warm,
August was average for rain and down on temperature.

18z to 18z
30.8 mm (1.21") 6th
26.0 mm (1.02") 27th

Temperatures:
+0.4°C mean above average.

Sunshine:
215.50 hours (105%)
Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

Hi Ian,

I keep a record of Shoeburyness and it is quite surprising how much
less rainfall they get to me. Although it is on MoD land as you drive
onto Foulness Island it is in fact nearer to Great Wakering, which
used to be in the record books for the driest. We often walk around
Wakering Common and pass the station.

A couple of micro-climate issues may hold the answer. It lies in a
flat area with a bank to the west/NW of it, hence often with westerly
winds it becomes a bit of a sun trap and can often be warmer than me.
Of course this has nothing to do with rain. However, it's location
offers a perfect rain shadow for the SE corner of Essex. It also
misses many of the convective showers that I get near Southend
Airport.

My data is 18z to 18z, so it is difficult to do an identical match,
however, if we look at the two 'wet' days here are the differences:
5/6th
Shoeburyness - 28.2mm
Me - 31.4mm

27th
Shoeburyness - 11.2mm
Me - 26.0mm
I was on the centreline of thunderstorms that afternoon, which were
not as potent 7 miles away in Shoeburyness / Great Wakering (Brother /
Sister live), just as an example.

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"