Dr Phil Smith According to the Met. Office, following on from a record dry summer, September was a wet month in the UK with rainfall in Sefton being about 50% above normal. This fits rather well with Rachael Parks daily measurement of precipitation in her Formby garden. She recorded 129 mm which is about 60%...
Dr Phil Smith The almost unprecedented summer drought continued throughout August, Formby receiving only 13mm of rainfall, about 20% of the expected amount. The Met. Office reported the warmest summer on record, beating even the scorcher of 1976. They pointed to high contrasts nationally, with a named storm, heatwaves and drought, all consistent with a...
Thankfully, the longest spring drought in living memory came to an end in June, with Formby experiencing 17 rain-days, giving a rainfall total of about 112mm at Rachael Park’s rain-gauge. This is around 40% more than the average for the month. It was the warmest June on record in England, though we largely escaped the...
Dr Phil Smith With high pressure dominating for all but the last week, May continued the dry, warm and sunny theme of February, March and April. Overall, the Met. Office tells us that the spring was the warmest ever recorded in the UK and the second driest in England. Rachael Parks measured only 42 mm...