Rainfall Records

For as long as I can remember my father took daily weather records. Some of his enthusiasm has rubbed off and I have been taking rainfall readings since 1992. My equipment is simple. A graduated plastic funnel of the sort you can often buy in garden centres. It is just pushed into the soil away from overhanging plants. Readings are taken each day nominally at 08:00. I make no claim to any great degree of accuracy for individual readings but the cumulative results are accurate enough to expose long term trends. For this reason I have restricted the figures below to monthly totals.

My location is in the Stroud Valleys at about 250 feet. The surrounding hills are around 500-600 feet, no doubt the hill tops get more rainfall than the valleys.

.	Jan	Feb	March	April	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Totals
1993	132	7	13	82	87	71	83	18	94	97	56	144	883
1994	103	86	48	57	80	24	15	37	118	67	77	118	830
1995	136	106	36	19	53	14	10	4	106	76	86	86	731
1996	56	64	63	49	36	25	41	87	29	60	108	33	651
1997	10	107	16	21	62	88	18	97	38	80	107	89	733
1998	119	12	91	91	10	112	18	42	115	130	70	94	905
1999	149	36	65	103	100	49	17	164	130	58	60	138	1069
2000	32	92	25	196	94	42	54	56	124	186	172	152	1226
2001	63	74	94	93	49	21	65	83	56	135	49	25	808
2002	107	148	41	53	118	63	85	28	32	166	140	116	1101
2003	77	24	44	59	70	48	120	13	13	60	101	95	726
2004	115	39	75	91	55	39	33	135	58	163	54	58	915
2005	50	35	74	65	58	48	36	26	39	123	97	90	741
2006	23	33	106	33	135	25	79	69	88	96	125	146	958
2007	124	100	73	6	138	136	136*	56	24	60	76	105	1034
2008	149	44	103	50	88	60	142	102	138	68	97	60	1101
2009	99	63	33	47	48	53	123	62	25	66	205	95	919
2010	81	57	67	19	43	35	53	132	42	64	65	30	688
2011	75	70	11	1	26	73	62	59	47	46	62	111	643
2012	64	23	26	167	51	165	118	126	65	114	170	168	1257
2013	88	42	83	26	87	22	40	46	58	176	75	141	884
2014	192	171	40	51	115	62	84	97	21	108	125	53	1119
2015	98	45	29	18	66	38	51	86	52	68	102	125	781
2016	124	82	115	49	91	64	16	52	54	20	105	41	813
2017	78	42	61	13	62	46	89	60	70	44	65	104	734
2018	57	29	136	60	65	3	29	58	46	55	78	89.5	705
2019	26	48	61	65	34	121	53	95	93	147	116	104	963
2020	95	162	47	38	6	122	49	114	23	157	56	171	1040
2021	116	73	37	18	142	24	72	38	63	139	13	75	810
2022	20	85	43	19	59	40	10	30	45	112	137	106	706
2023	101	7	169	94	40	33	108	89	65	134	102	131	1073
2024	71	149	148	61	102	27	93	40	209	101	111	56	1168
2025	120	59

* true total higher, rain gauge overflowed!

Rainfall Records

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