Rain
(asked on 24th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the recorded total rainfall was in (a) Kent, (b) Essex, (c) Hertfordshire, (d) Hampshire, (e) Bedfordshire, (f) Surrey, (g) East Sussex, (h) West Sussex, (i) Wiltshire, (j) Dorset and (k) Buckinghamshire for the period 1 July to 31 December 2016; what the 10-year average is for each of those counties; and if he will make a statement.
The information requested has been provided from the Met Office UK climate series and is contained in the following table.
County | Total rainfall (mm) for the period 1 July to 31 December 2016 | 10-year mean (mm) for the period 1 July to 31 December |
Kent | 216.9 | 389.6 |
Essex | 182.2 | 325.1 |
Hertfordshire | 231.2 | 361.3 |
Hampshire | 283.8 | 466.0 |
Bedfordshire | 234.8 | 330.0 |
Surrey | 260.8 | 407.9 |
Sussex1 | 268.0 | 485.7 |
Wiltshire | 308.5 | 455.5 |
Dorset | 350.8 | 532.1 |
Buckinghamshire | 237.4 | 362.2 |
1 Regional statistics are not held for West and East Sussex, only for Sussex as a whole.