Today
Has it rained enough in Reading?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Reading has had 87.2mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 69.1mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Reading through a normal year
Across a normal year Reading gets about 687.2mm of rain, most of it in October (69.1mm) and least in March (48.6mm).
A normal October in Reading has rain on 16 days. Only 10 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Reading one of the drier places this site covers in the United Kingdom in October — 27th 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 basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.