Robin Nicholson wrote:

I always thought Canterbury and the extreme SE got clobbered by
showers running along the Channel and clipping Kent. How do you
normally compare with Dover 'down the road'?

Not even so far away as Dover, but in Boughton (about 6 miles away as
the crow flies) there seems to be a lot more rain than here. I have
remarked before about how so many heavy storms seem to pass just to the
west of here - on several occasions it's been bone dry here but a walk
of a mile or so into town often shows signs of heavy rain. The same
seems to apply to the far south-east of Kent - a number of times I have
seen radar images which show moderate or heavy rain just around the
coast of Kent (Dover/Folkestone area) but absolutely nothing here.

Perhaps we are just (un)lucky, but I suspect it is more a case of
coincidence. I have checked to make sure that my rain gauge is at least
roughly accurate and I'm fairly sure that my exposure (although not
great) isn't the cause seeing as I've witnessed at first hand the
extreme local differences in rainfall.

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