April 2012-- wet! wet! wet!

The dry winter and exceptionally dry March has given way to one of the wettest April's since record began.
Here in Hawley I recorded 82mm of rain, to put this into context below is the rainfall amounts recorded over the previous 6 years.

a very wet month!

2006: 38.4mm
2007: 4.8mm
2008: 0.2mm
2009: 22.1mm
2010: 13.5mm
2011: 1.2mm (6 days data missing)

The combined totals of these months is still 2mm short of 2012's which just proves what an incredibly wet month it was, good news for the farmers and water companies though!

Stats: high temp.   18.2C
          low temp.    -4.4C
          mean temp.   8.1
          high wind.    38.0 mph
          rain.              82.0 mm