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Following the flooding at Tescos yesterday at Arena Park do you have
any rainfall figures?

Also, do you have data on day swhen thunder has been heard over the
last few months? I have a feeling that thunder has been especially
common over the pas few months.

Martin


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JPG wrote:
Following the flooding at Tescos yesterday at Arena Park do you have
any rainfall figures?

Also, do you have data on day swhen thunder has been heard over the
last few months? I have a feeling that thunder has been especially
common over the pas few months.


Don't know what PING stands for bur here I am well and truly PINGED!

Hope it's not rude:-)

On Sunday we had 28.4mm of rain in Coventry, Martin with some
torrentail falls at times especially midday.

We have had 11 thunder days in the past 3 months, 14 in 2006 so far.

22 days is the annual record total in 1983; of late we had 18 in 1999.

cheers

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
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Steve J, BWS wrote:
JPG wrote:
Following the flooding at Tescos yesterday at Arena Park do you have
any rainfall figures?

Also, do you have data on day swhen thunder has been heard over the
last few months? I have a feeling that thunder has been especially
common over the pas few months.


Don't know what PING stands for bur here I am well and truly PINGED!

Hope it's not rude:-)

On Sunday we had 28.4mm of rain in Coventry, Martin with some
torrentail falls at times especially midday.

We have had 11 thunder days in the past 3 months, 14 in 2006 so far.

22 days is the annual record total in 1983; of late we had 18 in 1999.

cheers


Thanks, Steve for your prompt reply. Unless Arena Park had much more
than you measured, possible I suppose as the storms were fairly
localised, it sounds more like Tescos need to get their roofing
contractors back in.

My wife's impression of more thunder than usual seems to be wrong.

"Ping" is a small program on all windows computers that allows you to
send a few data strings to any computer or device on a network,
including the internet. A healthy device will respond and give
timings. The term seems to have moved over to usenet as a hailing
method.

Thanks again,

Martin





Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk


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Clee Hill radar suggested ~30-35 mm just east of the M42 (Dorridge, Balsall
Common...); 35-40mm further south, particularly along the western slopes of
the Cotswolds; 40mm+ around Caerpilly...

Chris


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Following the flooding at Tescos yesterday at Arena Park do you have
any rainfall figures?

Also, do you have data on day swhen thunder has been heard over the
last few months? I have a feeling that thunder has been especially
common over the pas few months.

Martin



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Felly sgrifennodd JPG :
"Ping" is a small program on all windows computers that allows you to
send a few data strings to any computer or device on a network,
including the internet. A healthy device will respond and give
timings. The term seems to have moved over to usenet as a hailing
method.


I hate to be pedantic, but it was of course a Unix program long before
it was an MS Windows program; Microsoft just copied it, like they did
all their good ideas.

Usenet has its roots back in the time when "rn" was THE newsreader and
everyone who was anyone reading news was running Unix and we all
understood what was meant when someone said something like /Jenkins/:f,
and ths like. Yes, I was one of them at the time. So much of the
terminology from those times still hangs round in Usenet news.

Adrian (still using rn, or rather its successor trn)

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