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Old April 1st 05, 06:41 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Colin Youngs Colin Youngs is offline
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Default Watnall 11.2 mm cobwebs

I have it on good authority that the 11.2 mm rainfall reported from Watnall
on Thursday evening was wrong.

It seems that a heavy-footed spider was building a web inside the recording
rain gauge and caused spurious readings by stamping on the tipping buckets !

Colin Youngs
Brussels