Rainfall 2008

[reef]

On reading a post in another thread about how despite a dry first half of May, the ground was still relatively saturated to a high level, looking at my records it occured to me that the first 4 months of the year have been well above average on the rainfall front.

So far we've had:

Jan 2008: 171.8mm (339%)

Feb 2008: 28.3mm (74%)

Mar 2008: 91.9mm (202%)

Apr 2008: 79.3mm (187%)

So thats 2 months with around twice the expected rainfall and one with over three times. The only dry month was February, mainly due to its anticyclonic spell mid-month.

2008 so far: 371.3mm (210%)

The last 12 months have seen 5 individual months and 2 whole seasons with rainfall above 150%. The previous 2 years had just 3 months and no seasons.

Has this been mirrored anywhere else?

[azores92]

On reading a post in another thread about how despite a dry first half of May, the ground was still relatively saturated to a high level, looking at my records it occured to me that the first 4 months of the year have been well above average on the rainfall front.

So far we've had:

Jan 2008: 171.8mm (339%)

Feb 2008: 28.3mm (74%)

Mar 2008: 91.9mm (202%)

Apr 2008: 79.3mm (187%)

So thats 2 months with around twice the expected rainfall and one with over three times. The only dry month was February, mainly due to its anticyclonic spell mid-month.

2008 so far: 371.3mm (210%)

The last 12 months have seen 5 individual months and 2 whole seasons with rainfall above 150%. The previous 2 years had just 3 months and no seasons.

Has this been mirrored anywhere else?

hmm, sounds very interesting, although im sure its "cyclical". seems to me as if its gonna get drier if anything...

[BARRY]

froward point dartmouth has had 459.6mm this year

[Thundery wintry showers]

Cleadon has had 182mm so far:

January 85mm

February 11mm

March 29mm

April 57mm

So probably about average overall, January and April were wet but February and March were dry. May looks like being another very dry month, so for the Tyne & Wear area it doesn't seem to have been too wet.

[Terminal Moraine]

Rainfall here so far in 2008 stands at 452mm which is 114% of average. It was 122% of average to the end of April but the very dry first half of May has reduced it somewhat.

[J07]

I'm often taken aback by just how dry the east of the UK can be. 11mm in a winter month is barely a drop. Just a shame that the sunshine hours are so pitiful despite the low rainfalls.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

553.2mm here so far.

229.2mm in January

114.8mm in February

121.4mm in March

63.2mm in April

24.6mm so far this month.