Staplefield Anorak
Rainfall Graphs

This page contains five different rainfall graphs.

The first graph compares the cumulative rainfall for this year with
the wettest (2000), driest (2005) and the average of the last 14 years.

Interestingly (?) the wettest and the driest years both started very dry.

The scale on the left is mm. Updated 15 July 08

If you live in England it won't have escaped your notice that 2008 started wet.

After a dry Feb, a record wet March sent the yellow line soaring upwards; in 2005 it
was July before our annual rainfall reached those levels.
May ended up wetter than average after looking as if it was going to be a dry month
with high pressure dominating the weather over Sussex until the final week.

Without any really prolonged wet spells in Sussex the year has continued wetter
than average without even the whisper of a hosepipe ban. (Probably because I recently
bought a 3500 litre water butt!)

cum rain

The graph below compares rainfall from the summer months (Apr-Sep) with the winter months. There
are two trend lines, both of which indicate a trend of reducing rainfall, the more 'valuable'
(in terms of refilling underground water supplies) winter rainfall reducing slightly
more than the summer rainfall.

Summer/Winter rainfall

Annual Rainfall in Staplefield (mm)

Graphs of Staplefield monthly rain for 2007 & 2008 plotted against:

maximum
average
minimum

since 1992

2008
This year's wet March has left June as the only month which averages less than 50mm (2in)

2008

2007