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How much rain fell in Orlestone, Kent? Daily, weekly and monthly totals averaged over the Environment Agency rain gauges within 15km, updated every 15 minutes.
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In force until 11pm Sat 24 Oct (UK time). Issued 9:05am Sat 24 Oct by the Met Office.
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Next 24 hours: about 16.9mm of rain forecast for the area around Orlestone, heaviest in the hour to 19:00 (3.9mm).
A computer model forecast (DWD ICON) for a square about 15 km across, updated 17:05 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 Ashford (north) nr Ashford | 0.1km | 15.7mm | 60.7mm | 91.0mm | 12.1mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Ashford (south-west) nr Ashford | 4.3km | 12.6mm | 61.4mm | 86.6mm | 10.6mm |
| Rainfall gauge nr Sellindge nr Sellindge | 7.9km | 13.4mm | 55.5mm | 78.7mm | 9.2mm |
Daily totals 24 Sep–23 Oct. Wettest day: 21.3mm.
11 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Ashford (north), against a full-month average of 17.0 rain days (based on 2 months of records at this gauge).
2026 so far: 535 mm (1 Jan to 23 Oct), against 584 mm by the same date in an average year (2000–2025) — 8% drier.
One bar per calendar year, the average of 8 local rain gauges: the Environment Agency's quality-checked daily archive, then live telemetry for the latest months. Wettest: 2009 (1,034 mm). Driest: 2017 (624 mm). Average: 802 mm a year.
Daily totals are the average of 8 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.
Orlestone gets about 745 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 90 mm; driest March, 43 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), 2.5 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 Discharging now
Nearest gauge on it: Chart Leacon, 7.2 km away: 0.28 m Rising ▲.
Every gauge on the Great Stour →A level is shown only when the gauge's latest reading is under 6 hours old. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Orlestone's monitored area.
1 storm overflow within 5 km of the centre of Orlestone's monitored area. 1 is discharging now.
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: © Southern 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.
Civil parish in Kent, England
Orlestone is a mid-sized civil parish in Ashford District, Kent, England, with a population of 1,593. The centre of the parish is Hamstreet village which falls almost entirely within it but has a small fraction in the parish of Warehorne. The civil parish here reflects the very longstanding dominance of Orlestreet as its ecclesiastical parish boundary and provides a third alternative to most residents of Hamstreet to their village name, other than 'Ham Street'. Hamstreet is bypassed by the A2070 road, six miles south of Ashford.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
16.5mm of rain fell yesterday (23 Oct 2026), from the average of 10 rain gauges within 15km of Orlestone.
October so far: 91.1mm vs 97.6mm October average — 7% drier (the average covers the whole month; we are 24 days in). Figures are the average of 10 rain gauges within 15km.
Rainfall gauge nr Ashford (north) is the nearest rain gauge, 0.1km from the centre of Orlestone's monitored area. Rain gauges can be several kilometres from the town itself, so very local downpours may not register exactly.
11 days with at least 0.2mm of rain so far this October at Rainfall gauge nr Ashford (north), against a full-month average of 17.0 rain days.
2009 was the wettest year in the record since 2000, with 1,034 mm from the average of 8 local rain gauges, against an average of 802 mm a year. The driest was 2017, with 624 mm.
4 Dec 2010: 45.6 mm on average across 8 local rain gauges, and up to 89.8 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 Orlestone's monitored area — local rainfall can vary over short distances.
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