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Old April 26th 07, 09:39 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default UK drought definitions

Philip Eden wrote:
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

With that in mind, however, it may be useful to point out
that the original threshold for the rainfall amount for
breaking an absolute drought was 0.01 inch (which is as
near as dammit 2.5mm).


0.25mm, of course. Just testing, you understand.


or 0.254mm to be as precise as possible ;-)

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