In message , Steven Briggs
writes
Here in Knaresborough, just on the east side of the Pennines, we often
experience a very noticeable rain shadow effect from said hills. Many
times I noted that heavy rain coming in, particularly from the NW,
often results in very little or no rainfall here, while the Pennines
get a soaking, and also areas less than 10 miles to east (e.g. Vale of
York) also get plenty of rain.
Anyway, on the BBC forecast for tomorrow's fronts, the now more
detailed rainfall "animation" also leaves a big dry band to the
immediate east of the Pennines, with rainfall on both sides of that.


Well, pretty much as I expected this morning. A few brief spotty
showers, just enough to wet the ground. The weather station recorded a
big fat zero for today.
The radar pretty much matched the forecast (for my area of interest),
dry down the east side of the Pennines. Rainfall appeared quite intense
on west side, so I'm not surprised we got a few spots here.

--
steve