Cloudburst, deluge, downpour, drizzle, lurping, mizzle, patter, pelt, pitter-patter, pour, raining buckets, raining cats and dogs, raining stair rods, rain shower, shower, soaker, spatter, spit, sprinkle, storm, stream, torrent, waterspout. Unrelenting, it has been.

So what are the figures, how is rainfall measured and should we hold out for the “barbeque summer” of our dreams? Sheila Johnson (and Robin before her) have been recording the rainfall figures in Tuckenhay for 52 years and there is hope …

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Tuckenhay Rainfall 1960 to 2012

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