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Stephen Burt writes:
On 16 Jan, 21:47, "Colin Youngs" wrote:
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Drumalbin, Bingley, Trawsgoed, Aberdaron and Charlwood 13 mm, Little
Rissington 16 mm, Sennybridge 21 mm, Capel Curig and Lake Vyrnwy 24 mm,
Spadeadam 25 mm, Aviemore 48 mm.

Hmmm ... I wonder how many of these large totals we've seen last few
days are from melting snow in unmanned and unchecked tipping bucket
gauges ...
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I noticed this on Tuesday when 3 places in the north of Scotland reported
high rainfall totals without anything on the radar to back them up *-
Tulloch Bridge 26 mm, *Aboyne 28 mm, *Altnaharra 44 mm.

I also had it in mind on the following days *- *but from this distance and
without specialist knowledge, I was not sure whether it was still a factor.
I should have been sceptical about the Aviemore figure since it was so much
greater than the others.

I also noticed during the periods of snowfall that the rainfall totals often
seemed too low for the depths of snow being reported.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

No criticism of your excellent reporting intended, Colin. I find it a
shame that these anomalies will probably get left in the
climatological record through lack of action or interest. So much for
maintaining an _accurate_ record of the nation's weather! Symons, Mill
et al must be positively spiining in their graves at this vandalism of
the country's rainfall records.


Philip Eden made essentially the same point in his weekly piece in
yesterday's Telegraph. It would be even worse if heavy snowfall occurred
in one month and the thaw the following month, as then the monthly
totals would be wrong as well as the daily ones.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)