On Jul 23, 10:31 am, Stephen Burt wrote:
On 21 Jul, 22:34, Brian Wakem wrote:



In the list of notable rainfall events is Fleet (Hampshire) 26/09/33. Was
there once an official weather station in Fleet? If so do you know where
it was and what happened to it?

In 1933 there were three official raingauges in Fleet. One, Fleet
(Home Wood), recorded 131.1 mm, almost all of which fell in about 4
hours, in a very localised thundery downpour (at South Farnborough,
just 8 km away, only 7 mm fell). Other totals from the area on this
date:

Fleet (Crookham) 107.9 mm
Fleet (Winchfield) 102.1 mm
Hook (Nateley Hatch) 62.5 mm
Greywell 62.2 mm
Odiham S Wks 61.5 mm
Upton Grey 51.1 mm
South Warnborough 52.8 mm
Rotherwick (Tylney Hall) 71.4 mm
Hartley Wintney Council Offices 99.1 mm
Bramley (Street Farm House) 68.6 mm
Stratfield Turgis 62.5 mm
Heckfield 38.9 mm

All but the last are from British Rainfall 1933, and daily records for
all of these sites will be available in the Met Office archive in
Exeter. There's also a map of this famously localised intense storm in
BR 1933 (p 69).

I suspect the density of rain gauges for analysing the July 2007 events
will be nothing like as good as the network in 1933, more's the
pity ...

Schools used to have weather stations but no longer, due to vandalism.
What government agency has taken on such a mantle of irresponsibility?