August Precipitation Watch· Page 3

POD
Advanced Member

25 August 2016 15:47:46

#51

Just 39.8mm month to date and only light showers forecast for the early hours tomorrow.

Pat, Crawley Down, West Sussex.

LeedsLad123
Advanced Member

25 August 2016 20:05:40

#52

We are now up to 64mm, so comfortably above average..

It's fallen on 8 days in total though, which is a normal number of rain days. Kind of like August 2013 - warmer than average, but high rainfall total due to 1 or 2 very wet days. Over half of this month's rain has fallen on 2 days - today and the 11th.

Edited by user 25 August 2016 20:07:16 | Reason: Not specified

Whitkirk, Leeds - 85m ASL.

Bolty
Advanced Member

25 August 2016 23:47:16

#53

Definately a wetter than average August now. 80.6mm up to the 25th here.

Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
My weather station

Dougie
Advanced Member

26 August 2016 00:00:12

#54

Definately a wetter than average August now. 80.6mm up to the 25th here.

Originally Posted by: Bolty

By contrast, here the total so far for August is 10.9mm. (25th)

Ha'way the lads

Retron
Advanced Member

26 August 2016 06:34:31

#55

Just 7mm here this month - there was heavy rain earlier today for less than a minute, but it stopped after making the ground damp. Still, there are fringe benefits: the lawn's not grown for 5 weeks now!

Leysdown, north Kent

four
Advanced Member

26 August 2016 06:56:36

#56

Yesterday turned very wet later with a train of thundery showers though no actual thunder.
There seems to have been about 29mm from the storm total though hard to believe with blue sky and drying wind this morning.
That more or less doubled the month total on 62.6mm but that's still below average - (91mm)
More expected late Saturday.

North York Moors weather

ARTzeman
Advanced Member Topic Starter

26 August 2016 07:09:38

#57

1.2mm Yesterday

0.9mm Today

49.8mm This Month.

Some people walk in the rain.
Others just get wet.
I Just Blow my horn or trumpet

TimS
Advanced Member

26 August 2016 07:33:13

#58

About 11mm here and it could well stay below 15mm right up to the end of the month.

So this summer a strange pattern. A big NW/SE split in June with a soggy South and average or slightly dry North, and then the extreme opposite for 2 months in a row.

By end of August some places in the South may have had less than 20mm in two months, but the reason there's no drought is because of the deluge in early summer.

Similar state of affairs in France. Large areas South of Paris were having hundred year floods at the end of May, now those same areas are under drought restrictions and hitting the high 30s.

Brockley, South East London 30m asl