Today
Has it rained enough in Middlesbrough?
Rain soaked properly in 6 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Middlesbrough has had 30.1mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 68.2mm, so that is about 44% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 15.6mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
8 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Middlesbrough through a normal year
Across a normal year Middlesbrough gets about 733.4mm of rain, most of it in November (69mm) and least in March (49.7mm).
A normal October in Middlesbrough has rain on 17 days. Only 11 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Middlesbrough one of the drier places this site covers in the United Kingdom in October — 30th of 40, against Swansea at the wet end (148.2mm) and Cambridge at the dry end (61.4mm).
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.