So that is now two consecutive summer months with 100mm rainfall after
the 18mm so far today. A rare event indeed in these parts and no such
other occasion can I find since my rainfall records started in 2008.
There have only been five other months with 100mm in that period and
August last year had 71.5 mm in one day. There have been many months
with figures in the 90's so it is clearly a bit of a threshold.
Dave

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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So that is now two consecutive summer months with 100mm rainfall after
the 18mm so far today. A rare event indeed in these parts and no such
other occasion can I find since my rainfall records started in 2008. There
have only been five other months with 100mm in that period and August
last year had 71.5 mm in one day. There have been many months with figures
in the 90's so it is clearly a bit of a threshold.
Dave


I always count the months when it is *less* than 100 mm!

Monthly totals this year so far:

Jan 368 mm
Feb 371 mm
Mar 91 mm
Apr 139 mm
May 115 mm
Jun 75 mm (dry)
Jul 24 mm (very dry)

So 3 relatively dry months so far this year :-)

Will
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http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
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"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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So that is now two consecutive summer months with 100mm rainfall after
the 18mm so far today. A rare event indeed in these parts and no such
other occasion can I find since my rainfall records started in 2008.
There have only been five other months with 100mm in that period and
August last year had 71.5 mm in one day. There have been many months with
figures in the 90's so it is clearly a bit of a threshold.
Dave


I always count the months when it is *less* than 100 mm!

Monthly totals this year so far:

Jan 368 mm
Feb 371 mm
Mar 91 mm
Apr 139 mm
May 115 mm
Jun 75 mm (dry)
Jul 24 mm (very dry)

So 3 relatively dry months so far this year :-)

Will
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http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Until 2100 Z today the August rainfall has reached 130.2 mm, so despite the
dry July, the "summer" rainfall (247.2 mm) has now exceeded the average (235
mm).
--
Andy
(near Romansleigh, North Devon)
http://www.romansleighweather.co.uk/

Will Hand wrote:

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
So that is now two consecutive summer months with 100mm rainfall
after the 18mm so far today. A rare event indeed in these parts and no
such other occasion can I find since my rainfall records started in
2008. There have only been five other months with 100mm in that
period and August last year had 71.5 mm in one day. There have been
many months with figures in the 90's so it is clearly a bit of a
threshold.
Dave


I always count the months when it is *less* than 100 mm!

Monthly totals this year so far:

Jan 368 mm
Feb 371 mm
Mar 91 mm
Apr 139 mm
May 115 mm
Jun 75 mm (dry)
Jul 24 mm (very dry)

So 3 relatively dry months so far this year :-)

Will
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Yeah, but that is just normal for you Will. This is extreme in desert
Essex. 200mm in two months, 560 mm so far this year and no tumbling
hillside streams to take it away from the clay plains :-(

Strange how this rain event is almost a year to the day of a similar one last August when 32.8mm fell here

Scott W wrote:
Strange how this rain event is almost a year to the day of a similar one last August when 32.8mm fell here
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That was different in type though Scott. If you remember that was the 3
hour downpour that deposited over 100mm in Canvey and 71.5 mm here. This
was good old fashioned "it rained all day"!

You're right - that has just jogged my memory - I was travelling back from camping in Broadstairs just before that deluge arrived - Southend seafront was like a waterfall according to videos posted online,
Rainfall seems quite varied in this event which ran from 6am till just after 9pm here
Wanstead 22.2mm, Laindon 25.3mm, Woodford Wells 35mm?? Is Ron's station playing up? A station in North London recorded 38.5mm.

Interestingly St James Park, my closest official station, recorded 38.2mm - the highest 24hr total 6am to 6am. That is some difference, the rain band must have pivoted

On 26/08/2014 06:10, Scott W wrote:
You're right - that has just jogged my memory - I was travelling back from camping in Broadstairs just before that deluge arrived - Southend seafront was like a waterfall according to videos posted online,
Rainfall seems quite varied in this event which ran from 6am till just after 9pm here
Wanstead 22.2mm, Laindon 25.3mm, Woodford Wells 35mm?? Is Ron's station playing up? A station in North London recorded 38.5mm.

Interestingly St James Park, my closest official station, recorded 38.2mm - the highest 24hr total 6am to 6am. That is some difference, the rain band must have pivoted

21.0mm now since it started yesterday, funny sort of weather atm, breezy
NE'ly can see some blue sky about between the scud and at time quite wet
light rain. Not sure if that heavier band over Kent has my name on it or
not, it's a close call.

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

"Keith (Southend)" wrote in
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On 26/08/2014 06:10, Scott W wrote:
You're right - that has just jogged my memory - I was travelling back
from camping in Broadstairs just before that deluge arrived -
Southend seafront was like a waterfall according to videos posted
online, Rainfall seems quite varied in this event which ran from 6am
till just after 9pm here Wanstead 22.2mm, Laindon 25.3mm, Woodford
Wells 35mm?? Is Ron's station playing up? A station in North London
recorded 38.5mm.

Interestingly St James Park, my closest official station, recorded
38.2mm - the highest 24hr total 6am to 6am. That is some difference,
the rain band must have pivoted

21.0mm now since it started yesterday, funny sort of weather atm,
breezy NE'ly can see some blue sky about between the scud and at time
quite wet light rain. Not sure if that heavier band over Kent has my
name on it or not, it's a close call.


I had 15.2mm yesterday (midnight to midnight), total for the month is 60mm
which is near average. There seems to be quite a bit of rain around north
and south of us at the moment. Slight drizzle is as much as we have had
here since 07:00.

Alan

"Scott W" wrote in message
...
You're right - that has just jogged my memory - I was travelling back from
camping in Broadstairs just before that deluge arrived - Southend seafront
was like a waterfall according to videos posted online,
Rainfall seems quite varied in this event which ran from 6am till just
after 9pm here
Wanstead 22.2mm, Laindon 25.3mm, Woodford Wells 35mm?? Is Ron's station
playing up? A station in North London recorded 38.5mm.

Interestingly St James Park, my closest official station, recorded
38.2mm - the highest 24hr total 6am to 6am. That is some difference, the
rain band must have pivoted

My rainfall here in Woodford is totally legit Scott, measured in a Met
Office Snowden standard gauge,and the AWS 2 metres away showed 34,4mm ,both
on a open lawn exposure,dunno why you only got 22.2mm just 3 miles away !!

RonB