Tuesday, 23 September 2008

The Driest Part of the UK


I friend of mine told me that the Norwich area is the driest part of the UK. Therefore, I just googled a little bit and found that London, Cambridge, Kent, Essex, Lincolnshire, Huntingtonshire, East Anglia (i.e. Norwich), Northumberland and even Aberdeen are all claimed to be the driest places of the UK. What does this mean? Well, a cynic may argue that researching on the internet is highly unreliable. However, it may also be the case that the question of the driest part is just not precise enough (does it refer to the total amount of rain? the number of rainy days? which time frame is examined? do we also take humidity into account? etc.).

Finally I should add that it is currently actually raining in Norwich (and, of course, the picture above was not taken in Britain…).