2023 rain totals.

[Pan mixer]

Sorry if this is elsewhere.

Over here in (historically) sunny Essex we have a long term average of 495 mm.

We had 662mm in 2021 making it a wet year, 432 in 2022 making it a dry year.

This year we have been 'lucky' to receive 808mm which is a cool 163% of normal.


How about some of you others, a friend on Exmoor has just texted 2000 mm but his stock know how to swim.

 

[Wombat]

952 in east Yorks vs 648 average.

8 months of above average rain fall 3 record breaking March, July and Oct . 2 average may and June, two below Jan and Feb.

four periods of 7 or more dry days (longest 9 days) from mid June to Today

wettest day 72mm on 29th October

 

[del_boy]

This is at home on the England/wales border in south Herefordshire

 

[badger nadgers]

Michael Hilton at buxtonwweather.co.uk writes:

"..Well we don't want to wish our lives away, but many are glad to see the back of December 2023 - with 293mm (11.54 inches) of rainfall, the wettest December in the 20+ years I have my own records at www.buxtonweather.co.uk

In the rainfall records for The Met Office Buxton Slopes Weather station, which date back to 1860, it was the 2nd wettest December on record, in those 160 years - only December 1965 was wetter - in that soggy month, nearly 60 years ago, Buxton had 323.8mm of rain!

Overall 2023 was a very wet year with 1788mm (70.4 inches) of rain for the full year - against an average year of about 1250 mm (46 inches) - Again, looking at the Buxton Slopes records, 2023 was the third wettest year since 1860 - the wettest was 2000 when Buxton had 1849mm of rain!"

 

[Little squeak]

we have had 1154mm usually get less than a metre not as wet as 2012 when we got 1277, the difference was this time it was a dry late winter with only 6.5mm in February then it poured in Autumn

 

[Gong Farmer]

1169mm total for 2023 here in the South Cotswolds
797 was 2022 total.

 

[organicguy]

968mm for North East Wiltshire, 145% of average.
As with most things timing is critical. Possibly best summer ever for grass but wet spring and autumn have been a nightmare for maize and arable on strong ground.

 

[Gadget]

820mm.
average over the last 20yrs is 660mm.

 

[Jop]

1487mm here in west Devon.
Last 4 year average 1425mm.

 

[Matt77]

Nearly beat 2019, down here by camber sands...
2019-1003.4mm
2020-867.1mm
2021-793.5mm
2022-604.8mm
2023-922.2mm

 

[Lakes Nash]

We havent enough buckets!

 

[faircomment]

East Yorkshire 892mm
West Cumbria (home) 1243mm

Even a wet year for Cumbria….

 

[serf]

About 10 meters here in Midlands I think ....

 

[serf]

that's just the last month ....

 

[Devil's advocate]

952 in east Yorks vs 648 average.

8 months of above average rain fall 3 record breaking March, July and Oct . 2 average may and June, two below Jan and Feb.

four periods of 7 or more dry days (longest 9 days) from mid June to Today

wettest day 72mm on 29th October

But what you had in May was in the first week & what you had in June was the last week.

Nothing average about any of it.

 

[Wombat]

But what you had in May was in the first week & what you had in June was the last week.

Nothing average about any of it.

Yeah and it was foooking cold, warmest day of may was the day of the Leeds marathon, been training in 10 deg and frosts and rain all the way to May. May the 14th it hit 21 good few dry weeks did no harm though and we needed it by Christ to dry us up

 

[capfits]

Angus Glen 600 feet

Drum roll please.
1485mm
Wetter than Aultbea
Average circa 1000-1100
Wettest month October with a whopping 446.5mm
Wettest day 19 October 152mm.

 

[bobk]

sh!t loads here , never seen rain like it . we are unfarmable .

 

[Kidds]

Cairns in Australia had 892mm in December and for 10 days in December it didn't rain at all.
Can you imagine that?
I expect the hills above Cairns had even more and although it's the other side of the world and tropical there is lots of dairy around there and tbh a lot of it looks no different than somewhere like Devon.

 

[serf]

Angus Glen 600 feet

Thought this was your total rainfall for a min !
or it just feels like it ...