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Old January 2nd 10, 09:54 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Keith(Southend) Keith(Southend) is offline
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Default record rainfall in Andalucia

RK wrote:
On Jan 2, 1:37 am, "jbm" wrote:

Litres per meter cubed = millimetres.


Just a nitpick, but it's litres per metre squared.

1 litre = 1000 cm^3, and 1 square metre = 10000 cm^2, so 1 litre/m^2 =
0.1 cm

(And, as an aside, a litre of water weighs 1 kg, so the record
Cumbrian rainfall back in November saw a metric ton of water fall in
24 hours on an area of a just over 3 square metres... or a square a
little under 6 feet on each side!)


Some December 2009 Rain totals for Southern Spain etc.
Most fell during the last two weeks of the month.

507.7mm Gibraltar
313.0mm Malaga/Aeropuerto(16m)
278.5mm Jerez De La Frontera Aeropuerto(27m)
276.7mm Sevilla/San Pablo(34m)
220.9mm Moron De La Frontera(87m)
184.3mm Granada/Aeropuerto(567m)
136.7mm Almeria/Aeropuerto(15m)


Also
382.4mm Santiago/Labacolla(370m) Spain
272.4mm Vigo/Peinador(264m)
316.2mm Flores(29m)-Azores
243.1mm Horta(62m)
245.0mm Lajes(55m)
249.6mm Angra do Heroismo(76m)
252.4mm Santa Maria
284.7mm Funchal (55m)-Madeira
420.2mm Viseu(644m) Portugal

677.0mm Antalya(54m) Turkey

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