Met Office station record
Southampton · March 2000
The last March Southampton recorded, in 2000, was its 11th-driest March of the 146 in a record running from 1855 to 2000.
Read from the Met Office file for this station, in the vintage we archived on 11 August 2026.
14.7
mm
rainfall, March 2000
The lowest Marchs on record — rainfall
- 1st19613.1 mm
- 2nd19904.3 mm
- 3rd19294.4 mm
- 4th19445.3 mm
- 5th18936.6 mm
- 6th19388.6 mm
- 7th187411.7 mm
- 8th192512.0 mm
- 9th187912.4 mm
- 10th195313.8 mm
- 11th200014.7 mm
- out of 146 on record
Ranked against every March this station has on record. Ties share a rank. Months with no published reading are left out of the count entirely; they are never read as zero.
Every March on record
One cell per year from 1855 to 2000, shaded from this station’s own lowest March to its highest. Years with no published reading are left blank rather than filled in.
March 2000, every metric
| Measure | Value | Rank in the record |
|---|---|---|
| mean daily maximum | 12.5 °C | joint 15th-highest of 145 |
| mean daily minimum | 4.7 °C | joint 18th-highest of 145 |
| days of air frost | 1 days | shared with 19 other years |
| rainfall | 14.7 mm | 11th-lowest of 146 |
| sunshine | not published | — |
The last twelve months, read across
| Measure | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max °C | 14.4 | 18.6 | 19.4 | 24.2 | 21.8 | 21.2 | 16.1 | 11.8 | 9.3 | 9.1 | 10.9 | 12.5 |
| Min °C | 6.7 | 10.4 | 10.9 | 14.0 | 14.1 | 13.3 | 8.1 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 4.3 | 4.7 |
| Frost | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| Rain mm | 57.2 | 17.2 | 75.3 | 11.8 | 119.5 | 111.9 | 66.8 | 49.6 | 138.8 | 26.3 | 88.5 | 14.7 |
| Sun hrs | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
April 1999 to March 2000, oldest first. * marked estimated by the publisher · p provisional, and will be revised · — not published
How these figures are read
The publisher marks estimated values with *, missing months with ---, and sunshine read by an automatic Kipp & Zonen sensor with #. Missing months are excluded from every ranking on this page; they are never read as zero. Ties share a rank.
We archive the publisher’s file verbatim every time we fetch it, so the figures above can always be checked against the exact version they were read from: data/weather-stations/raw/2026-08-11/southamptondata.txt.
Notes carried in the source file: Site Closed
This station has closed. Its record ends at March 2000.