With 176mm of rain falling this month, it looked at one point as though the record rainfall (216mm) of August 2004 might be in danger of falling. I certainly made up for the heat of July. Typically, now everyone is complaining about the rain.

Rainfall from Jan 2001 until the end of August 2006

This has raised our total to 488mm (19.2inches) for the year so far. that's 49mm (1.9inches) more than for the same time last year

Yearly rainfall to End of August 2006

Average monthly rainfall from Jan 2001 to August 2006

This has brought the average rainfall for the month of August to 114mm or 4.5inches

Rainfall for August from 2001 to 2006

Regards Phil.