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Old May 28th 07, 11:39 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Stephen Burt Stephen Burt is offline
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Default Wokingham 28May07

Much wetter only a little way to your west, Bernard:

09-09h totals he
26 May 12.7 mm - all fell 20z-09z
27 May 37.7 mm

Event total 26 May/20z to 28 May/09z 50.4 mm and counting.

The 27 May rainday fall is the highest daily fall in May since 1932 on
local daily records (gauges within 6 km of this site), and the third-
highest since those records commenced in 1910. The only wetter May
days on the record have been 40.6 mm on 13 May 1915 and 37.8 mm on 21
May 1932.

To date (it's still raining) 29 hours unbroken rainfall (at least 0.2
mm in each clock hour).

Air min this morning in unbroken rr/RR 4.6°C at 0520. Earth temp at 30
cm (tube thermometer) has fallen 2.1 degC in the last 24 hours.

Stephen
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire (10 km SW of Reading)