"Martin Rowley" m wrote
in message ...
... I thought there was a means of converting the R24R24R24R24 into mm
only, but can't find the reference. If I do, I'll post it on.


.... no, my mistake. I was confusing the reporting of rainfall in SYNOP
with that in other forms such as CLIMAT and HYDRA, and in the latter
specifically, Code 3596 does report rainfall in whole mm, but for period
of 'x' days, where x is usually segments of a month. As you write, there
does not seem to be a method of reporting such high rainfall totals in
the *SYNOP* code.

Martin.


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