The highlights for me have all been related to the amount of rain we have had in East Yorkshire. I think we are looking at wettest year in decades.
The year started nice with a very nice Jan and Feb.
March and April were very wet.
May was cold and breezy to start but got out nice towards mid month.
June was nice till mid month then it got very stormy.
July was one of our wettest Julys in the last 50yrs. Still remember the weekend of the 22/23rd of July where it rained for 42 hrs straight. Unfortunately I had booked to do the castle Howard 10km and it was so wet they had to cancel the triathlon bikes as it was too dangerous.
August was wet with a few interludes of nice weather.
sept started nice and then went wet
October was our wettest month the 75mm on the morning of the 29th, 10 days after babet was horrendous with lots of house locally flooded.
Nov the rain continued and Dec also.
A long time since we have had 4 dry weeks since the middle of June.
The strange thing is the amount of hours of rain. Normally rain pushes through the east quickly, i have never know as many hours of rain. 10, 20, 40hrs for fronts is unprecedented.
I am not sure if it was the position of the highs and lows or the jet streams, maybe those who know more could explain but it has been an unbelievable year for all the wrong reasons.
So highlight of 2023 the fact tonight it will be gone :)
Well thank goodness 2023 is over just over 950mm against an average of 648mm in our part of east Yorks. wettest day Sunday 29th Oct 72mm in 3 hrs. 4 periods of at least 7 dry days from July to Dec and a lot of crops destroyed hey ho hopefully 2024 is more normal
