Septembers’ total was a whopping 225.7mm, coming in at 4 times the average. The first 11 days saw a total of 75.1mm which was already 25% more than the monthly average. Any hopes that the last 3 weeks of the astronomical summer would at least be summer like (remember the September heat wave last year) went with 25.9mm of rain on the first 2 days, followed by 17.5mm on the 5th and 24.8mm on the 7th. Bit of a dry, but not spectacularly nice, spell from the 12th to the 19th until an afternoon thunderstorm delivered 23.1mm on the 20th in very short order. Then the last day of summer, the 22nd this year, saw 34.1mm followed by the first day of autumn with 28.6mm. It wasn’t finished there with 29.2mm over the 25th and 26th before another 23mm on the 29th. In those last 11 days of September we had a total of 149.2mm or, in old money, 5.9inches and a total for the month of 8 inches. Actually it wasn’t a particularly cold month only becoming more so from about the 27th although the very wet days felt chilly. But it was certainly a very, very, very wet one.