In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Nick Gardner
wrote :

After 24 days of no rain, it finally poured down on the dust bowl that is
the Otter Valley. Recorded 0.2 mm of rain this afternoon in the extreme
drizzle.

Surely it hasn't been broken, technically, since AIUI the definition is
'15 or more consecutive days without rainfall of *more* than 0.2mm'?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)