[Dave K]

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A wet start here with 15.8 mm to the 6th which is 255% of average! Just one dry day so far.

[Lightning Hunter]

Currently on 24.3mm here to 1700 on the 6th, which is 227.1% of average to this date.

4 rain days.

This post has been edited by Lightning Hunter: 07 May 2012 - 10:11

[00ctober]

Dry start here with just 1.7mm so far, 14% of the average to this point. 2/7 rain days, 1/7 wet days (today). Looks like a very wet evening in store round here so that % should shoot up.

[Richie]

MAY RAINFALL

0.3mm -- Day 01
0.4mm -- Day 02
TRACE -- Day 05
TRACE -- Day 06

Total so far: 0.7mm

[Andy Mayhew]

Up to midnight on the 7th: 42mm

With is 380% of ave to date and not far off the ave for the whole month (48.8mm), especially with a further 2.1mm earlier this morning .....

[Ian Williams]

16.2 mm for me in St Germans SE Cornwall, this equates to 117.4% of average for the first 7 days of May.

[Johnny25]

A wet start to May in Warwick - Rain fall for the month up until 17.00 today, 45.2mm.

Looks like more on the way tomorrow. Can't wait.....

[John Robert Mellor]

Currently at 25.6mm, so definitely above average for the first 8 days of May....haven't done the calculation by how much though.

[Uskys]

to 16z/8th 47.2mm here.... just under 50% of the av. for the whole month.

[summer '85]

Wettest April-May periods on record for England and Wales

1782: 281.4
2000: 240.6
1983: 225.9
1843: 222.5
1932: 212.6
1773: 206.2
1830: 195.5
1924: 195.3
1818: 191.5
1920: 191.1
1979: 189.0
1967: 188.3
1931: 187.3
1878: 186.8
1792: 184.4
1993: 184.0
2012: ~183

[00ctober]

00ctober, on 07 May 2012 - 13:10, said:

Dry start here with just 1.7mm so far, 14% of the average to this point. 2/7 rain days, 1/7 wet days (today). Looks like a very wet evening in store round here so that % should shoot up.

Now on 43.9mm after this very wet period, 230% of the average to this point.

[PJB]

32,4mm here in Southbourne todate.

[Richie]

MAY RAINFALL

0.3mm -- Day 01
0.4mm -- Day 02
TRACE -- Day 05
TRACE -- Day 06
TRACE -- Day 07
4.4mm -- Day 08
5.5mm -- Day 09
9.5mm -- Day 10
5.9mm -- Day 11

Total so far: 26.0mm

[Dave K]

A very wet start to May here, 38.7 mm may not sound much but it's 312% of normal for the first 12 days of May. 9 rain days out of 12 and consistent amounts rather than one or two downpours.

[Lightning Hunter]

To 1700 on the 11th we're on 58.8mm, which is 309.1% of average to this date. 8 rain days.

[Ian Williams]

43.0 mm for me @ St Germans to the 13th which is 194.6% of average for the first 13 days

[Uskys]

83.3mm here so far, above average.

[Andy Mayhew]

Up to midnight in the 14th: 52.4mm

61-90 average for the whole month is 48.8mm, however 3 of the past 5 years (since I started recording) have exceeded that figure by over 50%

[00ctober]

Today, 15th, has been the wettest day here since last September with 19.8mm. Most of this fell overnight/around sunrise.

This takes the May total so far to 67.1mm which is a whopping 248% of the average after 15 days. Almost all of this has fallen in the past 9 days.

[Richie]

MAY RAINFALL

0.3mm -- Day 01
0.4mm -- Day 02
TRACE -- Day 05
TRACE -- Day 06
TRACE -- Day 07
4.4mm -- Day 08
5.5mm -- Day 09
9.5mm -- Day 10
5.9mm -- Day 11
TRACE -- Day 14
1.7mm -- Day 15


Total so far: 27.7mm