On Jun 20, 10:09*pm, Nick 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
and about 200 with at least 0.1mm.

That is quite a key difference, certainly where my preferences are
concerned. Far better - and less disruptive - to have a few days with
really heavy rain, then sunshine in between to dry the ground out: if
say you had a real washout on one of every four weekend days - but the
other three were warm and sunny - that would be a better climate than
what we have.

My experiences with southern Germany (three visits so far, shortly to
be four) suggest that has more of this sort of climate - I've
experienced two days with heavy rain all day and very cool
temperatures (funnily enough, both Saturday 18th July, but in
different years - 1987 and 2009) but on the other hand, significantly
more warm, sunny weather than in NW Europe. In all three visits I've
also encountered good summer thunderstorms too.

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Yes, in a holiday context especially, a really wet day would not be a
large price to pay for the sunny ones. One of the best shortish
holidays I've had here was a February week or so in the Nelson-
Marlborough region of NZ with at least six perfect sunny days, and an
extremely wet day for the drive back to the interisland ferry on the
last day.