On Jun 20, 5:34*pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Jun 20, 10:41*am, Rupert Wood wrote:





On Jun 20, 6:32*pm, "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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I think it's clearly important to differentiate between "raininess"
and "wetness". At Motueka in Nelson province in this country, the
average rainfall is about 1360mm/annum but the number of days with 1mm
or more is barely 100, and the hours of rainfall are fairly low -
periodic wet episodes lasting a few hours, short sharp showers.
Prolonged periods of light rain or drizzle are not common. More
extreme is Takaka further west, with rainfall about 1600mm at the
coastal beaches and 2500mm just inland near the hills. The town gets
over 2000mm per year, with about the same number of rain days as
Motueka. On the other hand the southern coast of NZ (Invercargill for
example) gets only 1110mm per year, but has 160 days with at least 1mm
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Ignoring the attempt to bring right wing politics into another
discussion by you know who.........

That's a really interesting point, Rupert. I'm relying on perception
here, which may well be wrong(!), but Dawlish does not suffer from the
drizzliness od Dartmoor. Maybe because on the days with hill fog in SW
and W airstreams, the air dries and warms in its 400m downhill journey
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You know full well the point I was making however I will elaborate: I
mentioned the immigration levels of London as why would these people
have a anti-north bias it means nothing to them. The second point was
that you cannot talkor even menyion the words foriegner, ethnic
minority without racisms being bandied about yet you can say
southerners fat americans with no one raising an eyelid util of course
U mention that statistically the fattest americans are afrucan
american or hispanic. Its always the same people that squeal in these
cases and tehy are usuallt water melons green on the outside red in
the middle. I never deviated from the thread only reacted against anti
american sentiment which seems to thrive in this group and if you
respond you are racist?