2145 GMT

Total now 12.4 mm
Rate 11.4 mm/h
Turning into a dirty wet night now.

One reason why radar may have been under-reading was the old problem of rain
falling from shallow cloud being orographically enhanced over high ground.
Radar
beam overshoots the low cloud and misses the rain. This is more of a problem
if
a radar goes out of the network as it then has to be replaced with radar data
from a more distant radar which would be looking higher up. I cannot tell
whether this was the case this evening. Anyhow the thicker cloud seems to be
coming in now and it looks like we are in for a big fall in Devon. I fear the
worst re the flooding situation it does seem inevitable given that the moor
this
morning still had streams running down the paths which should normally be dry.

Fingers crossed.


2230 GMT

Total now 15.0 mm
Rain rate 3.0 mm/h

Will.
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" Ah yet another day to enjoy "
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