Will Hand wrote:

Some people may be interested in my paper published in 2002:
"A historical study of extreme rainfall events in the 20th Century"
Report number 384, 2002 available at: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research...rts/index.html

Care to check your newsreader settings so you can post links properly.
Or should I be using what Microsoft passes for a browser?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research...rts/index.html
got me to the archive index but why not give the direct link?

javascript:showAbs("2002/FRTR384/ABSFRTR384.html");

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research...84/FRTR384.pdf

I've got MSN Explorer working on it now. It's like waiting for Godot
to wade through sludge.

Bloody hell it actually opened that javascript link:

A historical study of extreme rainfall events in the 20th Century
Will H. Hand

Extreme rainfall events by their very nature are rare but common
enough to require consideration of the possibility and associated
serious flood risk by DEFRA. It is therefore vital that signals of the
possibility of such events occurring in any given region be recognised
as early as possible, preferably 24 hours or more in advance.

The primary aim of this study was to examine events in the 20th
century in order to ascertain any common hydrological and
meteorological features that could be used operationally to provide
early recognition of the possibility of an extreme rainfall event that
could lead to serious flooding.

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Perhaps the MetO should convert to international standards so that in
emergencies all computers can retrieve their data.

It's not as if open source is going to ruin the drive to make the MetO
pay for itself is it? Or is there an intention to put DRM in the mix?