Martin,

Certainly some very heavy shortlived bursts of rain in the University around
Friday (26th) lunchtime and early afternoon - dampening down the Open Day a
little!

Ken

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
... I see from the 24hr data published on the Met O site he-

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...t_weather.html

(data up to 2100Z on the day of issue), that for the second day running,
Winterbourne has topped the rainfall list.

I assume this 'Winterbourne' is the one associated with the University of
Birmingham (Edgbaston) - there are others.

On the 26th (period 24hr up to 2100Z) .. rainfall 32.6mm
On the 27th (period 24hr up to 2100Z) .. rainfall 37.6mm
Total for those 48 hours = 70.2mm

Anyone got any thoughts/corroborating data? I've had a look back at the
MeteoX archive (15min), and there certainly was mod/heavy rain in the
vicinity 26/13Z - 26/15Z, 26/1730-1745Z & possibly around 27/16Z.

These figures stand head-and-shoulders above other data - though that
would be expected in the situation. There is one sad news story from
yesterday that might be associated:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/8122769.stm

They've already had a deal of rain earlier in the month .... see he-

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...t20090608.html

Martin.


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