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Old April 25th 09, 01:34 PM 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, 08:32, Graham Easterling
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64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo atwww.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
I suspect 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


There are a number of news stories appearing now. A regular statement
is that parts of west Cornwall received 50% of the normal April
rainfall in 12 hours. In fact locally it was 100% in nearer 6 hours.

There has been extensive flooding. 2 hotels in St Ives had to be
evacuated. It now appears that the new flood defense scheme didn't
help much http://www.stivescornwallblog.co.uk/...n-st-ives.html

Graham
Penzance