UMBRELLAS were much-needed across the county in November with recorded rainfall on every day except the last one.

Your Worcester News weatherman Paul Damari said the flooding in and around Worcester could have been much worse but for a dry autumn.

Mr Damari said: “It is amazing the amount of rain which fell in such a short space of time.

“If we’d had more rain in September and October the flooding situation would have been much worse.”

Weatherman Garth Lowe, who runs an official met office rainfall station in Old Storridge, near Malvern, said that the number of days of rain in one month was a very rare occurrence in this part of the country. He said: “Similar wet months were May 1983, with four dry days; January 1988, with three, and November 1997, with five.