floods

More than six inches of rain - 157.4mm to be precise - fell on Pershore over the weekend of the July floods. You can see the official Met. Office figures for the whole of the region below the image:

Crown copyright - Met Office

                                July 19        July 20        19/20        See (1)
                                             Rainfall millimetres

Pershore College          36.6          120.8          157.4         >200 years

Great Malvern              18.6            88.3          106.9          163 years

Shobdon Airfield          14.6            55.4            70.0           19 years

Hereford Credenhill     19.0             50.4           69.4            20 years

(1) =  estimated time in years until a similar event occurs.