On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:15:42 +0100, Col wrote:

The Rochdale figure does seem excessive though, that's nearly 3 inches!

Average of just over 8mm/hr. 3" in that time scale is not uncommon up here
but would bring the rivers and streams up rather a lot and produce
flooding in all the normal places. In an urba area I'd expect to see
reports of flooding, particulary as the media has a thing about flooding
ATM after last year.

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Cheers
Dave.