And further to that TokWW, summaries for May 2012 emphasise an abrupt change generally to warm settled weather in the period May 21 to May 30. After what followed in June and so far in July, many would start forgetting it.

Bergen - one of the rainiest cities in the world - is alleged to have once had a run of "wet" days (i.e. those with more than a trace of rain) of length 85. That sounds feasible. Of course one should examine any totals that are very small (say 0.2mm or less) in case the accumulation was from other causes.

Our first DRY day, Mark this day in your diary 15th July 2012, the first dry day for over three months,
a genuine period of more than 24 hours without rain.
Fourteen hours of rain are predicted for Monday, and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are
predicted as WET.
Fourteen hours of rain appears to be the price we have to pay for a dry one.

Luckily, the prediction of fourteen hours appears to be wrong but so was the start time. It was supposed to start raining at 05:00 this morning but actually started at 00:30 and has now stopped, so it might be a break and will re start, but it is just a uniform grey sky and no different to that when it is raining, so it's anyone's guess what will happen. Needless to say, the sponge has now been refilled and we are back to bog and puddles.

Updated at 10:45, it is now raining again at around 5mm per hour and restarted at 10:00, so we may get our 14 hours or more after all; Yuk:)