Another wet month the ‘media’ would have us believe. Or was it? Rachael Park’s rainfall data show that Formby received 89.5 mm, a little more than the long-term average of 80 mm. It is often forgotten that August is actually one of the wettest months of the year. Met. Office statistics show that August in...
After such prolonged dry conditions, a change to “rain at times” was welcomed by many. The North Atlantic Jet Stream got stuck over...
My May notes ended with “Surely June can’t be as dry as this, can it?” Well it was, for the first nine days, leaving our wonderful sand-dunes burnt brown. Thereafter, live-giving rain fell on ten days but only in small amounts. Met. Office maps showed we had about 75% of normal rainfall during the month. Nationally, it was the hottest June since records began and the sunniest since 1957.
I thought we had got away without a spring drought this year but no such luck. May provided begrudging rainfall on only six days and nothing after 19th. Rachael Parks sent me rain-gauge data from her Formby garden. Her May total was 28.5 mm, this being 50% of the long-term average. Met. Office maps for May show that Greater Manchester and north Merseyside were the driest areas in England.