Dave Liquorice wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8376031.stm

Nice and simple and the measuring glass shows very clearly how much
rain fell on Seathwaite over the 4 days 16-20 Nov. 490mm or 19.29" or
over a foot and half.


Agreed.

On 5-live Breakfast this morning, there was an interview with Peter Johnson,
an "amateur meteorologist", who mentioned a storm which knocked out all the
bridges on the Tyne bar one. He didn't mention when it occurred but I'm
assuming it was 1771 - the "largest flood for at least a thousand years". I
found a little more about it here on page 5 - http://1tinyurl.co.cc/?cp4sz9

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