Exe Valley Statistics - Rainfall

Well the Met Office have said that this was the driest April on record, so how did the lovely Exe Valley fair? Mike Gray our intrepid weather watcher has been monitoring the weather at his Upexe home for the last 14 years and is able to give us a really good insight into the annual trends as well as up to the minute figures.

All figures are in mm and have been collected in a standard size rain gauge.

YEAR	APR	AVG
1997	34	63.4
1998	116	63.4
1999	97	63.4
2000	165	63.4
2001	95	63.4
2002	42	63.4
2003	36	63.4
2004	69	63.4
2005	77	63.4
2006	16	63.4
2007	9	63.4
2008	64	63.4
2009	40	63.4
2010	28	63.4
2011	18	63.4

Profile: Adrian Gray runs his company Viewshed Ltd from his home in Silverton, Devon. He's a trainer, software and web developer specializing in Ordnance Survey maps, Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Open Source development for the web, desktop and mobile platforms. He can be contacted at www.viewshed.co.uk