Guardian Think 1929 Was More Than 250 Years Ago
March 26, 2014
By Paul Homewood
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/climate-change-uk-weather-wet-dry-met-office
In the Grauniad piece, I referred to earlier, they say:
The greatest deluge they refer to is, of course, the record rainfall from December to February.
But, as we know, this is emphatically NOT the greatest deluge. The three months from November 1929 to January 1930 were much wetter.
| mm | |
| Nov 1929 to Jan 1930 | 554.0 |
| Dec 2013 to Feb 2014 | 531.7 |
What is more, October 1929 was also extremely wet, so over the four months there was really no comparison.
| mm | |
| Oct 1929 to Jan 1930 | 706.0 |
| Nov 2013 to Feb 2014 | 624.2 |
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/7404/
Apparently 1929 was more than 250 years ago! I expect that’s close enough for the average Guardian reader!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Apparently, according to Dr.Roger Brugge, meteorologist at the Uni.of Reading,a drought is defined as 15 consecutive days with less than 0.2mm of rain,and has been the longest spell without rain in March in seven years:D.Mail-22.3.14.Not clear whether he meant S.E.England or U.K.in general.
Any ideas on that Paul?
I took the dog out last Saturday and got wet!
I suppose, arithmetically, a long spell such as this for a single month, coming along every 7 yrs, you could expect every two years, given that there are 12 such months every year.
It’s good what you can do with statistics!!
Why are you confusing everyone one with the facts? Every idiot knows that every weather event that takes place is the worst ever!
Never happened before, except for the exceptions!