Rainfall Statistics, 2014

[Bobby]

128mm for April, 122% the 105mm average. 1,027mm this year so far. The driest 3 months of the year coming up now

 

[Styx]

^ So much rain.  February looks amazing on that graph.

[TonyH]

Rugby, Warwickshire - thanks my parents:

Jan: 132.4mm = exceptionally wet
Feb: 51.4mm = slightly wet

Mar: 47.2 = near average

April: 33.2mm = rather dry 77% LTA

 

2014 to date: 264.2mm

Rainfall 2014 Llanwnnen, Ceredigion

 

Jan: 236.3mm = very wet, wettest January since 2008 (238mm)

Feb: 287.4mm = exceptionally wet, wettest of any month since Nov 2009 (309mm)

Mar: 68.8mm = fairly dry

April: 98.8mm = rather wet 129% local LTA

 

2014 so far: 692.3mm

Edited May 1, 2014 by TonyH

[Somerset Squall]

April's rain above average, making it the third out of four months to have above average rainfall so far this year.

 

January: 182.7mm (well above average)

February: 172.0mm (well above average)

March: 49.0mm (slightly below average)

April: 74.8mm (above average)

 

2014 so far: 478.5mm (well above average)

[Bobby]

April rainfall maps from Met Office, actual and anomaly:

 

 

The S and SW the wettest area of England and Wales, especially along the south coast. Dry in the east.

Average to above for Scotland.

Edited May 3, 2014 by Bobby

[Mapantz]

April was just shy of 100mm here, so the map is fairly close for my location.

[SteveB]

April finished at 51.6mm

[Summer of 95]

Spring 2000 or at least april 2000 gave record flooding on the severn I think that was the year.Summer of 95 will know.

Sorry for being so late but no there was no flooding here in spring 2000. Only in Oct/Nov that year.April was wet but March had been dry so it didn't flood.

[Terminal Moraine]

The year so far here.

 

January....... 209.8 mm ( 193% )

February......128.0mm   (  159% )

March............70.2 mm   (  82% )

April...............54.1 mm   (  70% )

 

Despite a drier than average March and April the total of 462.1 mm for the first 4 months is the highest on my 37 year record, beating 1981 by 3.7 mm. May would need a total of 91.8 mm for the first 5 months to break the 1986 record.

So far there's been 53.9 mm this month, not counting today's light showers.

[The PIT]

Sunny Sheffield so far

 

Jan  >  137.5 mm  > 169% of average

Feb >  106.4 mm  > 177% of average

Mar >  49 mm >  76.9% of average

Apr  >  63mm > 99.7% of average

May so far 45.4mm  > 76%  of average

 

Actually pretty close to our wettest year ever so far in 2012 just being slightly ahead.

[Terminal Moraine]

22.6 mm in the 24 hrs to 0800 g.m.t makes yesterday the wettest day of the year so far.

Ordinarily I wouldn't comment on this but for two unusual statistics.

Firstly, at the end of each of the first 4 months of this year ( and May will now make it 5 ) the accumulated rainfall total has been the highest on my 37 year record. Apart from 2007 which managed 3 consecutive months ( June to August ) with the accumulated total the highest on record, no other year has produced more than an individual month with this status.

Secondly, in such a wet year ( so far ), there has been no single rainfall day with 25.4 mm ( 1" ) or more; an unprecedented occurrence in my records.

[Bobby]

It seems we have missed the worst of the rain this month with 84mm so far, average 95mm. So will probably end above to slightly above average. If so 5 of the past 6 months have had above average rainfall and at least one of the wettest 6 month periods ever with 1,514mm since December. If the rest of the year is average we will finish with 2,007mm.

 

Anyone know their 6 month record?

Edited May 23, 2014 by Bobby

[TonyH]

Hi Bobby, we have had 1030mm since December 1st, however this is not as wet as the 4 months Oct 1929 to Jan 1930 which had 1048mm at Lampeter which seems unprecedented.

 

79mm so far for May, bang on the LTA for the whole month.

Edited May 23, 2014 by TonyH

[The PIT]

Could well top 100mm for the month a lot depends on today of course with 83.8mm 145% of average. According to the Davis so far another 8.2mm today. Total for this year exc today is 439.7mm  The wettest year we've ever recorded had 383.2mm at the end of May so quite a lead at the moment.

[Bobby]

Hi Bobby, we have had 1030mm since December 1st, however this is not as wet as the 4 months Oct 1929 to Jan 1930 which had 1048mm at Lampeter which seems unprecedented.

 

79mm so far for May, bang on the LTA for the whole month.

 

Very wet there too then, must be close to a years average in 6 months. Perhaps the wettest start to a year on record. Past 4 years records of accumulated rainfall here, way way out ahead, a crazy wet start indeed

[Weather26]

What a horrid Bank Holiday Weekend this is turning into for Sheffield-and we must have well and truly gone over the 100mm mark for May-We could end up beating February's total of 106.4mm and end up in second place for the year so far in which we have seen 4 out of 5 months with above average rainfall (with only March below average.)

[The PIT]

110mm in Sheffield up to and including today.

[knocker]

Rain over the Bank Holiday Weekend, with more to come

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/rain-over-the-bank-holiday-weekend-with-more-to-come/

[The PIT]

No real rain since the 25th. Today was supposed to be wet but bar some very light rain early this morning and a light shower a little while ago mostly dry. 

[johnholmes]

How close does this agree with your data Pit?

Sheffield South Yorkshire

22.0

is the Met O data

 

[Weather-history]

Seems to have creeped up on us this one but for England and Wales, this May is already the wettest since 2007

Edited May 28, 2014 by Weather-history

[Terminal Moraine]

It's the 4th wettest May in the last 50 years here with 137.1mm up to 0800 g.m.t.

The wetter ones were 1967; 1969 and 2006.

[The PIT]

How close does this agree with your data Pit?

Sheffield South Yorkshire

22.0

is the Met O data

MIles off whatever it's referring to 22mm for the month is very wrong a day is also wrong. Up to today we've now got 117.5mm 4th wettest here and wettest since 1983 which if I remember correctly mostly due to Thunderstorms which we haven't had this month bar a few distant rumbles. Could well finish 2nd wettest. I thjink the 186.4mm recorded in 1967 is unreachable unless we have a few surprise storms. 

[reef]

93.8mm this May so far which makes it the wettest since 2000. Another 12mm or so and it'll be the wettest since 1979.

 

22.4mm since yesterday morning too.

[The PIT]

Now up to 132mm for the month moving into third place for the wettest May on record. Next target 141.5 mm to beat. Difficult target unless the front gets stronger again during the day. 487.9mm so far this year. The wettest year ever had 383mm by the end of this month so we're a long way ahead already.