"John Hall" wrote in message
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"Ten days' rain" represents about an inch, hardly that rare a daily
fall. A cunning way to be unnecessarily alarmist.
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You've hit the nail on the head. I wouldn't lower myself to buy the Daily
Getsworse, but I had a sneaky look in Tesco today. Basically they are
saying that the average rainfall in August is around 90mm; some places may
get 30mm, so this is 10 days of rain. Obviously the headline conjours up a
vison of 10 days of rain concentrated in one day, whereas the truth is
somewhat different. I suspect that readers of the Express and Mail must
live in a permanent state of paranoia.
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Hungerdunger
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