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How much rain fell in Carlton, Nottinghamshire? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
Next 24 hours: little or no rain forecast for the area around Carlton (under 0.2mm).
A computer model forecast (DWD ICON) for a square about 15 km across, updated 11:05 UK time. It is a forecast, not a measurement, and not a Met Office forecast. Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Daily totals for UK days from the same computer model; "dry" means under 0.2mm. Forecasts further ahead are less certain.
| Gauge | Distance | Yesterday | 7 days | October | Today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainfall gauge nr Carlton | 0.0km | 5.6mm | 33.6mm | 64.4mm | 0.0mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Lambley nr Lambley | 5.8km | 5.6mm | 35.4mm | 66.8mm | 0.2mm |
| Day Brook nr Bulwell | 6.6km | 6.8mm | 38.8mm | 67.9mm | 0.0mm |
Daily totals 27 Sep–26 Oct. Wettest day: 12.4mm.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Carlton, against a full-month average of 16.2 rain days (based on 19 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 499 mm (1 Jan to 25 Oct), against 543 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 8% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 6 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2023 (966 mm). Driest: 2011 (439 mm). Average: 684 mm a year.
Daily totals are the average of 6 local rain gauges, for UTC days; one gauge can catch much more than the average. A storm's figure adds up the rain measured on its dates, from our list of Met Office named storms and major floods — other weather on those days counts too.
Carlton gets about 612 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month July, 63 mm; driest March, 37 mm). That is drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year.
Monthly averages in mm. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 2.3 km from the town's gauge centre. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. UK comparison: Met Office HadUK-Grid areal series, 1991-2020, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rain gauge River gauge Storm overflow
Nearest gauge on it: Colwick, 0.9 km away: 1.58 m Falling ▼.
Every gauge on the River Trent →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Carlton's monitored area.
33 storm overflows within 5 km of the centre of Carlton's monitored area. None of the 32 with a live status is discharging right now, and 1 has no current status.
Event Duration Monitors show when an overflow may be spilling; they do not confirm it, and this is not advice on water quality. A live status older than two hours counts as no current status. Live status: © Severn Trent Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.
Town in Nottinghamshire, England
Carlton is a town in the Borough of Gedling, Nottinghamshire, England. It is to the east of Nottingham. The population at the 2011 Census was 6,881. It was an urban district until 1974, whose wards had a population of 53,555 according to the 2021–2022 United Kingdom censuses. Owing to the growth of residential, commercial and industrial in the wider Gedling borough, City of Nottingham, Broxtowe, Rushcliffe and Ashfield, as well as the Amber Valley and Erewash in Derbyshire which have become quite urban around Nottingham, Carlton and Gedling, as well as Netherfield form a contiguous urban area.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
5.9mm of rain fell yesterday (26 Oct 2026), from the average of 6 rain gauges within 15km of Carlton.
October so far: 69.6mm vs 72.3mm October average — 4% drier (the average covers the whole month; we are 27 days in). Figures are the average of 6 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Carlton is the nearest rain gauge, 0.0km from the centre of Carlton's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
16 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Carlton, against a full-month average of 16.2 rain days.
2023 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 966 mm from the average of 6 local rain gauges, against an average of 684 mm a year. The driest was 2011, with 439 mm.
10 Jun 2019: 49.8 mm on average across 6 local rain gauges, and up to 59.8 mm at one of them. Records since 1 Jan 2000.
Rainfall data: Environment Agency rain gauges, synced every 15 minutes. Daily totals are computed overnight (UTC days); "today so far" is live. Gauge distances are straight-line from the centre of Carlton's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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