Very Wet July So Far!

[Terminal Moraine]

As a footnote to this topic, the increase in July rainfall this decade has been remarkable.

The average July rainfall here for the last 3 decades is;

1980s......52.2mm

1990s......54.9mm

2000s......98.6mm ( 2000-2008 )

2009 looks like maintaining the high average for this decade as we're well over 90mm with 10 days to go.

[SteveB]

As a footnote to this topic, the increase in July rainfall this decade has been remarkable.

The average July rainfall here for the last 3 decades is;

1980s......52.2mm

1990s......54.9mm

2000s......98.6mm ( 2000-2008 )

2009 looks like maintaining the high average for this decade as we're well over 90mm with 10 days to go.

July is turning into the wettest Month of the year so far.

88.4mm

[Snowyowl9]

Thanks TM for that, another 13mm here since.

[Chris D]

Yep, 102mm recorded here. Double the average, and the month isnt even done with yet! Mind you a lot of it was a massive thunderstorm on the 1st, dumping around 25-30mm in an hour.

Edited July 22, 2009 by chris93

[Weather-history]

Hadley rainfall total for England and Wales is now 98mm up to 21st

So a 3rd consecutive 100mm July is virtually a cert

July decadal rainfall averages for England and Wales

2000s: 82.6mm (up to 21st of July)

1990s: 54.5mm

1980s: 61.4mm

1970s: 57.1mm

1960s: 76.7mm

1950s: 80.7mm

1940s: 70.6mm

1930s: 85.5mm

1920s: 86.6mm

1910s: 73.5mm

1900s: 67.2mm

1890s: 72.7mm

1880s: 95.2mm

1870s: 76.8mm

1860s: 62.4mm

1850s: 84.7mm

1840s: 77.7mm

1830s: 88.2mm

1820s: 88.0mm

1810s: 89.8mm

1800s: 81.1mm

1790s: 94.0mm

1780s: 85.2mm

1770s: 94.3mm

So the Julys of the 2000s as a decade are the wettest since at least the 1930s.

Top 10 wettest Julys of the last 30 years

2007: 139.4mm

1988: 139.0mm

2008: 103.9mm

2009: 98mm (up to 21st of July)

2002: 93.2mm

1992: 89.7mm

1993: 88.7mm

1985: 77.2mm

1980: 75.8mm

2004: 74.6mm

Edited July 23, 2009 by Mr_Data

[Albion Snowman]

To be honest im getting sick of how much rain their is. Its ok until roughly 11am then after that their is heavy and prolonged showers and this pattern has repeated itself throughout the past week and a half. Its really getting tiresome and you are limited as to what you can do outside. The ground is fully saturated with large puddles on fields near me.

Rant over. That feels better!

[Snowyowl9]

Yes AS there is only so much rain we can take,as you say the ground is now getting saturated for the 3rd summer in a row,not normal not for summer anyway.

Yes I do like watching showers go by like today with lighter winds,but yesterday was not with it being so blustery and frequent lighter showers.

Thanks MR Data so the country is getting much wetter this decade, so we`ll have to get use to it for now.

1880`s was the wettest then,the jet must of been in a similar postion.

GFS 12z shows the July`s rainfall going through the roof.

UKMO will be drier,not out yet.

Edited July 23, 2009 by Snowyowl9

[Typhoon John]

Does anyone have the rainfall total for Durham City so far this month? I'm curious to know the exact figure. I've heard locally that last Friday alone recorded 120mm.

[Weather-history]

Wettest Julys on record for England and Wales

182.6 1828

164.2 1834

158.4 1775

157.5 1880

156.6 1888

155.0 1787

152.9 1839

152.0 1816

149.5 1798

149.3 1779

148.0 1767

145.2 1822

143.7 1829

142.7 1875

139.0 1988

138.0 1936

135.2 1796

132.4 1920

131.7 1782

129.8 1855

129.4 1778

128.0 1789

126.3 1922

126.3 1802

126.0 1915

124.5 1861

122.9 1872

121.9 1801

121.9 1768

121.4 1879

119.7 1817

119.7 1960

118.6 1939

118.4 1924

117.4 1810

116.9 1895

116.6 1777

116.1 1871

114.1 1792

113.1 1882

112.5 1940

110.0 1853

110.0 1918

109.1 1930

108.5 1877

108.4 1931

108.3 1799

108.2 1850

107.8 1968

106.9 1823

106.6 1806

105.7 1867

105.6 1950

105.3 1886

104.4 1893

104.0 1957

103.9 1903

103.9 2008

102.4 1894

101.7 1766

101.3 1956

100.6 2009

[Weather-history]

139.4 2007

Missed that on the list

[Wynn D Woo]

Wow 1828 looked like a good month! Imagine the whining going on in here if we had a july like that again. Was that from continual frontal systems or was it a lot of heavy thundery showers?

[Weather-history]

Wow 1828 looked like a good month! Imagine the whining going on in here if we had a july like that again. Was that from continual frontal systems or was it a lot of heavy thundery showers?

You can read about it here

http://www.netweather.tv/forum/topic/55536-wettest-july-on-record-july-1828/

[Snowyowl9]

130mm here now after yesterday deluges this July making it the 2nd wettest on record here after 2007 with 60mm short of then,won`t be short of water now.

July 1988 was cold and wet but not deluges to bring the very high water table there is now,which is now seeping out the ground only twice that has happened in summer before June and July 2007.

[Wynn D Woo]

You can read about it here

http://www.netweather.tv/forum/topic/55536-wettest-july-on-record-july-1828/

Thanks, an interesting read. A truely awful month by the sounds of it and should it repeat again it would make the 2007 floods look like nothing Im sure.

Does anyone know where I can get rainfall data for Gloucester, the only source i have found lists the monthly total as 48mm to date but that seems so much lower than what other people are posting?

[TonyH]

Stuttering towards being an exceptionally wet month. However 'only' an inch this past week, limped up to around 7" (175mm) now...having said that its pouring now...and this was supposed to be the dry day

Edited July 25, 2009 by Tonyh

[The PIT]

187 mm is our record in 1973. We ain't going to beat that but this is the third consecutive July to have more than a 100mm of rain. Our average is 49mm.

[Essan]

So far I've had just over 2/3rds the rainfall recorded last year, and about 2/7ths of that in 2007.

Which makes this by far my driest July since 2006

[Marcus_surfer]

Very wet here so far

[TonyH]

So far I've had just over 2/3rds the rainfall recorded last year, and about 2/7ths of that in 2007.

Which makes this by far my driest July since 2006

Yoy must have had 300mm plus in 2007, presuming you have had 50mm plus this year.

[Essan]

Yoy must have had 300mm plus in 2007, presuming you have had 50mm plus this year.

2007 - 250mm

2008 - 100mm

2009 - 70mm

(roughly, don't have exact figures to hand)

[chionomaniac]

The difference between east and west regarding rainfall is very significant.

According to the nw rainfall totals Cornwall (where I was last week) has had 160mm in the last month. East Sussex has had just 50mm in the same period. I would have had better weather if I had stayed at home. It seems to have been wetter the further north and west you go this last month which in itself is not unusual, just that the amounts are.

[Snowyowl9]

That takes the biscuit Tony as you have a heavy shower today on a more or less was a garanteened dry day,but even showers came by here,a couple of light showers,I can`t remember the last completely dry day.

As for the thunderstorms the east have had this month the rainfall amounts still are less with more thunder/lightning to what the very heavy showers the west get much more rain, with less thunder or no thunder in places in some of the west.

[Terminal Moraine]

Just over 102 mm here so far in July which is less than a good many places. I can't see the record of 140.7mm going although it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

[TonyH]

2007 - 250mm

2008 - 100mm

2009 - 70mm

(roughly, don't have exact figures to hand)

Thanks, thats interesting, you were hit hard in 2007 with the flooding too in the SW Midlands.

[Cookie]

only had 6 dry days out of 26 this month.