Rainfall during the week ending at 9am on Sunday 4 September was 2.4mm, recorded on Monday 28 September - 0.4mm, Friday 2 October - 0.6mm, Saturday 3 - 0.2mm and Sunday 4 - 1.2mm. Totals are now 60.8mm for September, 2.4 and 370.0mm for 2009.

September rainfall was 0.9mm above average and brought the quarterly total to 186.8, the highest in four years and only 12.6mm lower than the highest ever, in 1921. (Lowest ever was 4.1mm in 1914, showing that extreme fluctuations within a decade are not abnormal.)