Unfortunately while temperatures were higher than normal so were rainfall figures.

Data from rainfall figures reveal that there is no relationship between the total amount of rain received and the spread of the area.

Updates rainfall figures to 1899.

Monthly rainfall figures show a 16-fold drop in rainfall from September 1988 to the start of last year.

Instead they used the rainfall figures in the area.

Below are average temperature and rainfall figures taken between 1981 and 2010 for the official weather station at the Sutton Bonington campus itself.

These are average temperature and rainfall figures taken between 1971 and 2000 at the Met Office weather station in Wye, around southwest of Birchington:

This prediction has been labelled as "far-fetched" by some, considering Rottnest Island was "receiving its highest recorded rainfall figure for July".

In some countries historic rainfall figures are hard to come by to prove how much rainfall is less.

The average temperature and rainfall figures taken between 1971 and 2000 at the Met Office weather station in Shawbury, are set out in the table below.