On Jun 20, 7:32*am, "Will Hand" wrote:
"Col" wrote in message

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On Jun 19, 7:17 pm, Graham Easterling wrote:





On Jun 17, 7:05 pm, "Col" wrote:

"Adam Lea" wrote in message

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On 17/06/11 17:45, Col wrote:
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That looks like a pretty big gap in the forecast rain over England
coming
up,
just like the big snowstorm forecasts we often get...

http://premium.raintoday.co.uk/

I was expecting rain from about 11 this morning.
Nothing yet....

Looks like it is all to the south of you. Pretty nasty in W Sussex at
the
moment.

I know it's been raining in the south, the newsreaders on the BBC
were asking when is it going to stop raining?
A little bit of rain and they think they're hard done by, those BBC
employees who re-locate to Media City in Salford are going to get
a nasty weather surprise I can tell you
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

I believe Manchester's annual rainfall is 820mm per annum. This
compares with 1219.6mm in Penzance (1981-2010 average).

Just thought it was time to expose the urban myth of Manchester being
very wet.

I am aware of this but Bolton is wetter than Manchester, I've
lived in both so I know
See my reply to Tudor but I think it rains longer but with less
intensity up here which probably helps perpeptuate this myth.

Col
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On Dartmoor it can drizzle for days on end!

Will
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The average here since 1983 is 815 mm. At the top of the North
Downs at nearly 900 ft the total is about 900 mm, by a happy
coincidence. It's almost certainly true that the rainfall duration is
lower than Manchester's though I know of no source of figures to prove
it. The sunshine duration is quite a bit higher and there are
certainly figures to prove that. A small point: - I would rather be
in Manchester than here during an easterly at any time of the year.
It can get quite nasty. Breezy and bleak.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft, 169 m