April 2012 - Wettest April for 100 years in UK

[ironeagleuk]

Here's my comparison of this April compared to last April...only because I remember that April 2011 was a scorcher

Total Rain:
2011 = 2.7mm
2012 = 93.0mm

Rain days:
2011 = 3 days
2012 = 21 days

High Rain Rate:
2011 = 3.6mm/hr 02/04/2011
2012 = 32.4mm/hr 12/04/2012

Wettest Day:
2011 = 2.1mm 05/04/2011
2012 = 14.4mm 28/04/2012

Minimum Temperature:
2011 = 2.6C 13/04/2011
2012 = 1.1C 11/04/2012

Maximum Temperature:
2011 = 28.6C 22/04/2011
2012 = 18.6C 30/04/2012

[Johnny25]

Yep, very wet month. Monthly total that my station recorded was 111.9mm. Average temp 7.6C

So far 5.4mm have fallen today. May could be wet too!

River Leam and Avon starting to spill over.

[Gordon-Loomberah]

I'm sure it was only a few weeks ago that I saw a news report about drought and water restrictions in the UK!

[steve]

I'm sure it was only a few weeks ago that I saw a news report about drought and water restrictions in the UK!

Many of the places that have been under water have a hosepipe ban in effect! But even with the amount of rain that's fallen, it doesn't come near to making up the shortage.

[bruce45]

not wanting to rub salt into the wound but here in oban, westcoast of scotland, we had just 3 inches of rain in april. so far 8 days of full sun well into the teens touching 20c on days. this by the way is not normal

[bigmac]

Although I've only been running my weather station for a year, looks like June will be my wettest month on record, 108mm already, just 6mm more to beat December last year (with a wet weekend forecast).
Just more a amazed that a summer month could be wetter than a winter month!
What do others have for wettest month (in the UK - realise some of you will laugh at that as a wettest month figure!)

[Conrad]

Last years total rain for me was 381.9 mm
Total for this year is already 325.2 mm

[RayProudfoot]

Just more a amazed that a summer month could be wetter than a winter month!
What do others have for wettest month (in the UK - realise some of you will laugh at that as a wettest month figure!)

Have a look at this rainfall graph for my station which went live in May 2009.

CH_Rain.jpg

Notice the wettest month is July followed by December and after today's rain, June will be my third wettest month. Winter rain tends to be moderate whereas in summer intense short periods of rain can produce excessive totals. My wettest day recorded over 2" with over 1" in an hour in August 2010.

[Boyo]

Don't know how I missed this post;very interesting record.

Also a very descriptive graph. How did you obtain this format please?

I joined Cumulus in June this year. My weather station, a technoline WS-2350, is situated in east Essex. The station is operating very well using the Cumulus software.

Good weather watching

Boyo

[RayProudfoot]

Don't know how I missed this post;very interesting record.

Also a very descriptive graph. How did you obtain this format please?

I joined Cumulus in June this year. My weather station, a technoline WS-2350, is situated in east Essex. The station is operating very well using the Cumulus software.

Good weather watching

Boyo

Welcome to the forum Boyo. The graph was created in Microsoft Access using the Pivot Chart option. Not something available in Cumulus. I download the contents of dayfile.txt into Access and use various queries to evaluate my records.

I'd like to be able to upload that chart as a HTML document but how I do that is still a mystery. Probably requires a SQL database but those skills are currently beyond me.

[mcrossley]

Ray, if you have an IIS based host server you can put up the output from Access databases directly on your pages, sure SQL scales better, but Access is fine for the typical number of users I suspect we get on our sites.

[RayProudfoot]

Mark,

I have no idea if my webhost has that capability. How do I find out? If it's any help David (Daj) hosts my site.

Of course this is something I would have to manually upload making it a bit of a pain remembering to do it.

[mcrossley]

Thinking about it PHP also provides connectivity to Access databases, I've only seen it run on Microsoft hosts, but I don't see why it shouldn't work on Linux hosts if the .mdb file is uploaded.

Here is a simple MS page on using ASP to access Access http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300382

[RayProudfoot]

Thanks Mark. That's a bit heavy for me but I'll look at it in slow time. Other things are taking priority at present.

My database is located on my laptop, not on the netbook where Cumulus resides. I would need to rejig things before I can even consider implementing that option.

[Boyo]

Ray,

Many thanks for info. re Microsoft Access/graphs. I'm not sure if it is worth it for me to buy this software. I have looked up the relevant site and will look into it in more detail.

Regards, Boyo

PS I have been unable to get back to your message to me on the Forum; don't know why, I tried everything I can think of.