On 23 Oct 2006 01:49:51 -0700, "Graham Easterling"
wrote:

The MetO seem to have given up on a decent network of recording
stations.


I have often wondered how official the figures are for the great
deluge at Martinstown (Dorset) back in,er, 1953. I believe there a few
figures given for other 'stations' in an article I once read.
Still, M is(or was) in the Guinness Book of Records and it is a mighty
record.

So much for the heavy rain this afternoon..the front seems to have
separated either side of me here just below Bul Barrow.
R