2020 SPRING RAINFALL COMPARISON FOR NORFOLK, SUFFOLK & EAST ANGLIA
2020 SPRING 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 |
|
January |
50.0 mm |
62.5 mm |
54.0 mm |
65.7 mm |
72.4mm |
57.8 mm |
50.9 mm |
|
February |
67.0 mm |
76.5 mm |
90.0mm |
82.5 mm |
76.0 mm |
84.4 mm |
76.1 mm |
|
March |
48.0 mm |
18.0 mm |
23.0 mm |
22.0 mm |
18.2 mm |
21.9 mm |
24.5 mm |
|
April |
20.5mm |
21.0 mm |
28.0 mm |
26.0 mm |
30.6 mm |
28.2mm |
26.1 mm |
|
YTD Total Jan - April |
185.5mm |
178.0 mm |
195.0mm |
196.2 mm |
197.2 mm |
192.3 mm |
177.6 mm |
The Winter/Spring of 2020 produced another fascinating period of weather in East Anglia, full of highs and lows. January gave about average rainfall, but February was a wet and stormy month. Do you recall storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge? We didn’t have the flood and devastation experienced in more westerly and northern regions of the country, but our rainfall was almost double the long term average. As if to compensate for the February deluge rainfall in March and April was a bit over half the expected norm.
Mean temperatures over the four month period have been above average with about half the expected number of days with an air frost. Average sunshine hours improved steadily from 106% in January to 160% of the expected norm in April.
Peter George
05/05/2020