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Old July 29th 08, 03:22 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tudor Hughes Tudor Hughes is offline
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Default Some rainfall totals from last night's 'event' (28/29 July 08)

On Jul 29, 11:09*am, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
Cobbling together some rainfall totals from the newsgroup entries at
0900Z illustrates the high degree of variability of rainfall from last
night's system ..

Ordered roughly geographically:-

Guildford (Phil Layton): 5.3 mm
Bracknell (Roy Avis): *12.0 mm
Wokingham (Bernard Burton): 5.2 mm
Reading (Eric Belton): 18.1 mm
Charlbury (Dick Lovett): 38.8 mm
Whipsnade (Philip Eden): 3.9 mm
Chalfont St. Giles (Norman Lynagh): 25.0 mm

and a selection from WeatherOnline (12hr to 06Z this morning)

Heathrow: 26.0 mm
Charlwood: 24.0 mm
Brize Norton: 23.0 mm
Benson: 16.0 mm
Northolt: 15.0 mm
Odiham: 14.0mm
Farnborough: 12.0 mm
High Wycombe: 12.0 mm
Middle Wallop: 7.0 mm

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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N * Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023


9.7 mm here, most of it in 25 minutes. Very little thunder.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.