Fall of Rain in England

Can you give me any information respecting the fall of rain in England? I mean the quantity of rain that has fallen in various parts of the island, from month to month, during the last ten, fifteen, or twenty years. If any of your correspondents can do that, or can give me a list of works, periodical or otherwise, in which such information is to be found, they will greatly oblige me. Can any of your correspondents inform me who is the author of the following lines? "Though with forced mirth we oft may soothe a smart, What seemeth well, is oft not well, I ween; For many a burning breast and ble…