"Will Hand" wrote in message
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11/10/06

.. Flash flooding elsewhere in Devon though.

Now, the manual total was 56.4 mm but my AWS VP2 read just 42.7 mm, why
the big
discrepancy? All I can think of is that the rates were so large that the
tipping
mechanism could not cope. A sobering thought for users of AWS I think.
Comments
appreciated on this?

This topic crops up from time to time.
Some earlier discussion here http://tinyurl.com/p6nho

After a few months using just the Davis 'Rain Collector' I returned to using
the standard rain gauge alongside it as well, as a check. Invariably there
is a difference following heavy rainfall-but we don't get too much of that
here.

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk