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2019 AUTUMN RAINFALL COMPARISON FOR NORFOLK, SUFFOLK & EAST ANGLIA

Written by Peter George. Posted in Weather Reports

2019 AUTUMN RAINFALL COMPARISON FOR NORFOLK, SUFFOLK & EAST ANGLIA

Group Member

Diana Perowne

Pauline Roberts

Graham Allison

David King

Terry Read

Peter George

Met. Office  Averages

Site

Month

Hevingham Norfolk

Wendling Norfolk

Thorpe St Andrew Norfolk

Brooke Norfolk

Sisland Norfolk

Pakenham Suffolk

East Anglia

September

74.5mm

99.0mm

125.0mm

77.8mm

65.0mm

50.5mm

58.4mm

October

94.0mm

127.5mm

157.0mm

142.7mm

129.0mm

50.5mm

89.8mm

November

82.0mm

83.0mm

102.0mm

95.2mm

102.8mm

76.5mm

69.8mm

December

60.0mm

80.5mm

95.0mm

75.3mm

68.2mm

74.0mm

80.5mm

Sept - Dec Totals

310.5mm

390.0mm

479.0mm

391.0mm

365.0mm

251.5mm

298.5mm

Jan - Aug Totals

285.5mm

358.5mm

384.0mm

391.8mm

344.2mm

292.0mm

324.5mm

Year Totals for 2019

596.0mm

748.5mm

863.0mm

782.8mm

709.2mm

543.5mm

623.0mm

The first thing to notice in the above chart is that the four months, September to December had a higher total rainfall than the previous eight months combined. Many would say that we needed that higher rainfall (in fact my own records for Pakenham show that the total annual rainfall for each of the five years 2015 � 20199 was below the average of the last 17 years).

It is also interesting to note the variation in total rainfall amongst this small group, 319.5mm between the highest and the lowest annual total. Although Pakenham, being further south, misses many of the shower fronts rolling in from the South West it is a bit of a lottery as to where the heavy showers fall.

According to the Met. Office averages for East Anglia the rainfall in this Autumn / Winter period was well over the long term average in each of the four months with October 138% and December 148% being the most above the monthly norm. Perhaps surprisingly, the total sunshine hours in September and December were also well above average whereas October and November by contrast had below average temperatures and sunshine.

Peter George
07/01/2020