MORE than a foot of rain fell on Porlock Hill during October, according to local statistician David Westcott.
He has been recording the rainfall at the Birchanger station for the last 40 years, and his October statistics noted a total of 395 millimetres of rain - or 151/2 inches.
Last week, Mr Westcott contacted the Free Press to report that a staggering 118mm of rain - well over four inches - had fallen during the storms of last Sunday night alone.
His records for the month also revealed that there were only four days in the whole month when it did not rain at all.
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Details revealed of new Williton industrial units as part of Station Fields housingThe first week from Sunday to Saturday, October 1 to 8, saw 29mm, about one and a half inches, of rain. That figure quadrupled to 103.9mm in the second week from October 8 to 14.
Rainfall dropped off again for the third week to 31.2mm, but doubled to 72.4mm by the fourth week, October 22 to 28.
However, the remaining three days in October saw the highest figure of all at 158.7mm of rain - more than six inches - as 118mm fell on Sunday, October 29, and just over 20mm fell on both Monday and Tuesday, October 30 and 31.