"David Mitchell" wrote :
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :

302mm fell at Lawnswood and 301mm at Hollies Park, and
302mm at Eccup Reservoir, and 292mm at Weetwood, all in and
around Leeds, in June 1982. Up to 260mm fell in the outskirts
of Sheffield during the same month. 285mm fell on the Loxley
catchment (near Low Bradfield) just west of Sheffield in July
1973. Those are the two months I remember floods in Yorkshire
making the news in a big way. I haven't researched any others.

Not a summer month, but I recall Sheffield station severely damaged by
rain in December 1991?? We were driving to the Dales from the South and
there was widespread flooding in the North, though possibly also as a
result of melting snow. IIRC.

Big orographic fall ... 100mm in 24h at Holme Moss, with a
monthly total of 283mm there, but less than 100mm in Sheffield
itself.

Philip