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Old April 25th 09, 11:21 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Graham Easterling[_2_] Graham Easterling[_2_] is offline
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Default Penzance - Huge Amounts of rain

On 25 Apr, 11:05, wrote:
On Apr 25, 10:32*am, "Will Hand" wrote:





Graham Easterling wrote:
64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo at
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...x.htmlIsuspect overnight
totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining


Got to go out - more details later.


Graham
Penzance


Could be some deaths? :-(


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8018003.stm


Will
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I looked at the radar around 2300 last night and it looked perilous at
that time for North and West Cornwall. There certainly wasn't a
warning at the time which surprised me. Having s.aid that, who would
have seen it at that time?????
If the rain had been marginally further South, could have been far
worse.

David Mitchell. Langtoft.- Hide quoted text -


I think it was in a pretty bad place, centred between Penzance & St
Ives. A couple of years back St Ives would have been badly flooded, it
looks like the recently completed flood defence scheme worked.

Graham
Penzance