Originally Posted by blueblade:
“There was some flooding around the Rugby/Leamington Spa area, I understand.”
Looking out of the back bedroom window there is currently a lake where the river (Ouzel) was earlier in the week. It is extremely rare for our river to flood after just a single isolated days rainfall. Despite that huge deluge across England on Wednesday it appears that the coming week and near future will be almost entirely dry, so it's rather unusual to have such a seriously big day of rain with little before or after it.
I've tonight scanned into my laptop all my weather register records from July 1st 1985 to 30th June 1987. What is interesting is that the recorded rainfall I have for June 1987, which is at exactly the same place I am still at, was 147mm for that month and I've never come close to beating it in this area since on a monthly basis. Although there was a period in the late 90's where I have a gap, including April 1998 which had the massive Easter floods in this area and I'm convinced had I had a working rain gauge that month I may have exceeded that June 1987 total and made that my wettest ever month since the middle 80's, but I can never know.
There is a person in my hometown who has a twitter account that hourly logs all the current local weather information, and it is a brilliant way for me to compare my own readings against his. It obviously gets automatically updated every hour throughout the day. Here is a link -
https://twitter.com/NPagnellweather. Does anyone know of any other twitter's like this one?
Current temperature is bang on 0c. The first week of March had the longest period of sub zero nightly temperatures all winter, five consecutive, four -1c's and a -3c.