WITH a week still left to run in the season, Hamilton has broken its spring rainfall record with 335 millimetres up to 9am yesterday morning, the next-highest tally being 320mm in 1992.

Local records go back to 1878 and only three other years have gone over 300mm for the months of September to November - 1887, 1893 and 1916, with 303, 304 and 307mm respectively.