In brief, 2009 rain wise after a wet 2008 started rather wet with a peak in February. It became the wettest February since the one of 1981. March was still rather wet but then the drought of 2009 got underway. There was a pretty long period of dry weather between the start of May and the end of June with hardly any measurable rain. After that, the rains became back but the rain events were hardly impressive. There was not a single day with more than 10 mm after September and the rainy season with the normally wettest months of October, November and December got a lot less than what fell during February 2009 (77 versus 133 mm). To summarize, it was a year which will not be remembered for long, except for the first couple of months, perhaps....

The first eight days of January 2010 went by without any rain but finally some insignificant but measurable rain was observed on the ninth and tenth. After that, more rain fell on the 11^th but after the 14^th, dry weather persisted during more than ten days. The final days of the month saw some rain but the amounts were far from impressive.
February was very dry with only 0.2 mm of measurable rain. There is little else to report during that month
March 2009 was almost a carbon copy of February, with no measurable rain. Only a couple of drops were observed during the evening of the 7^th, so it was too little to be measured...
April started as dry as the previous couple of months had been, but changes began to appear in our skies and some significant rain finally fell on the ^7th. After that day however, generally dry weather returned with little significant rain during the remainder of the month.
Only a little rain (0.2 mm) fell during the first half of the month in my gauge but finally more significant rain fell on the 18^th and 19^th. Other sections of the island however were not as lucky as Van Engelen, but the month ended with a healthy shower in many sections.
As May ended, so did June start; with another healthy shower. Showers fell regularly during the month but the wettest day so far became the 20th, with a good amount of rain. After three weeks, this June has already become the wettest one, since that wet June 1979, when I started my rain observations.
Some rain fell in the two weeks of July, but it was much less than some of the computer models had anticipated. More significant rainfall finally made it to many sections of the island during the evening of the 16^th and after that, there were a couple of more dates on which significant amounts of rain were observed.
August had only three minor rain events, so the amounts of precipitation were far from impressive.
September too had a dry start but on the fourth day of the month finally some significant rain fell in my gauge.

See the graphs associated with the rainfall numbers above.