"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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... a great shame; went to the first RIAT and it's cancellation will
disappoint many & as you write, be a great financial burden. They've had a
considerable amount of rain in a short
time, added to yesterday (Friday) by narrow bands of intense convection
rainfall.

Using data via OgiMet and WeatherOnline ...

For July, up to 06Z this morning, the total rainfall for Brize Norton (a
crude proxy for Fairford) is 81.3 mm, with the total for the past 7 days
74 mm; the local average is around 43 mm (as with many other spots in the
south - July being, usually, a dry month), so they've had roughly double
normal all-month rainfall since the beginning of the month, much within
the past week. The preceding month (according to charts on the Met O site)
was also within the 125% anomaly isopleth, indeed Fairford (difficult to
be precise from those maps), may have been within the 150% zone.


Cheers for the info Martin, there are some photos on the website now, of how
the ground is affected...

http://www.airtattoo.com/airtattoo/N...NCELLED_SUNDAY

Sunday's display has been cancelled too, not good news.

I assume they've insurance to cover this kind of thing, as they'll have a
few hundred thousand tickets to refund, wonder if traders get any kind of
refund as well.