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Old July 27th 10, 11:34 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default When does drizzle become rain?


"Will Hand" wrote in message
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The forecast drizzle was nigh on rain in SE London today


When you stop getting damp, and get ruddy soaked to the skin. Ask my dog!

jim, Northampton


Jim, come to Dartmoor to see what real drizzle can do. Horizontal heavy
small droplet drizzle will soak you to the bone in 10 minutes up here.
Rain in one minute!
Drizzle that is just damping is called "fine weather" in these parts :-)

Will
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lol

I wish we could have some of it around these parts. The local playing fields
are now the colour of ....

Or to put it another way, I'm having a lot of trouble finding what the dog
dumps on the grass against the current background colour. :-)

July so far: 10.2mm.

jim, Northampton