{"id":384930,"date":"2025-06-25T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=384930"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:18:33","slug":"cambridge-rainfall-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=384930","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Rainfall Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I looked at this EA report the other day. As you may recall, the stats show that English summers are not getting drier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is worth seeing if there are any regional variations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

East Anglia is the driest part of the country, so what is going on there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ECA&D offer a summary of the summer-half year, which is much more relevant and appropriate than a nominal June to August period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as the England graph, there is no long-term trend and the most recent drought in 2022 was not unprecedented. The driest summer-half was in 1921.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While we\u2019re at it, we can look at the other rainfall graphs for Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see nothing alarming in any of these charts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I looked at this EA report the other day. As you may recall, the stats show that English summers are not getting drier.<\/p>\n

However, it is worth seeing if there are any regional variations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":384942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691836066,691836065,691836063,691836064,691835158],"class_list":["post-384930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-driest-summer-half-in-1921","tag-drought-in-2022","tag-english-summers","tag-regional-variations","tag-water-shortages","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-545.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1C8y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":260660,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=260660","url_meta":{"origin":384930,"position":0},"title":"Germany Mean Temperature Trend For The Month Of May Sees No Rise Since 1986","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/04\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Unfortunately, the well-known rule \u201cWhen May is warm and dry, all growth stalls\u201d still applies, even if the sharp rise in CO\u2082 concentrations helps plants to better survive dry phases.","rel":"","context":"In \"CO2\"","block_context":{"text":"CO2","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=co2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0IMG_334102.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0IMG_334102.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0IMG_334102.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0IMG_334102.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0IMG_334102.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":409885,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409885","url_meta":{"origin":384930,"position":1},"title":"Oh, the HORROR! 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