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Old April 26th 07, 10:55 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Robb C. Overfield Robb C. Overfield is offline
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Default UK drought definitions

On a tatty piece of sub-ether at said...
On Apr 26, 2:46 pm, "Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom
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.

pe


Philip

I may have missed the point, but are you now saying there is no such
thing as a drought ? - or that we dont make a note of extended dry
spells ?

sorry just a bit confused.

Paul
Brampton
www.bramptonweather.co.uk


I think Philip is saying that there now is no official definition of what
constitutes a drought. Right???
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Rob C. Overfield
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