In uk.sci.weather on Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Philip Eden
wrote :
"Dave Cornwell" wrote :

Philip, do you know what the lowest official rainfall figure was for
England. I have a chance of beating it!

Dave ... 57mm at St James's Park in London. If you are using
a rain-gauge which is not sited on the ground you should be aware
that you are probably losing a proportion of your rainfall, perhaps
up to 10%. I always recommend AWS users to have a manual
rain-gauge as well, at least for a year or two, so you can see the
relationship between the AWS's rainfall and the standard.

Why *do* AWS's under-record, BTW?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)