Blandford water level

What this means

The River Stour at Blandford is running at a record low at 0.06 m.

No reading on record has been lower: the old record low was 0.29 m, from October 1, 2003. That puts it 0.06 m below the median of 0.12 m for mid-October, based on 16 years of readings. A year ago it stood at 0.06 m as well.

It has dropped 0.01 m over the past 24 hours. Without real rain upstream, that is unlikely to change quickly. In the last month it has stayed between 0.03 m and 0.08 m.

Autumn rain usually starts to lift rivers again after the summer low.

Compared with the highest and lowest levels the agency has recorded at this gauge. How to read levels

Key numbers

Median for this date

0.12 m0.06 m below the median for this date

Normal for this date

0.06 m – 0.35 m8 years in 10 fall in this range (16 years of records)

Normal range

0.39 m – 1.10 m

Same day last year

0.06 m0.00 m

Lowest and highest in 30 days

0.03 m – 0.08 m

Lowest and highest in 12 months

0.04 m – 1.63 m

Highest on record

2.78 mDecember 24, 2013

Lowest on record

0.29 mOctober 1, 2003

Lowest on record

0.23 m below the lowest level on record