"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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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
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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
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1600 mm per year here on Dartmoor. You really have to like rain to live
here. Manchester is like a desert compared to here and the SE *is* a desert
comparred to here. Any hint of rain in the forecast and we get it and today
it was so irritating. Carol Kirkwood at breakfast was going on at length
about a bit of drizzle in Wimbledon and then said "for the rest of you it is
a fine start", er no, ... it was foggy here with a soaking drizzle - hardly
fine. Local radio/TV is often not much better. Quite often you here in
winter that temperatures will not fall lower than say 5C when at home it is
already 2C and falling at the time of broadcast, or you hear a forecast of
maybe a bit of snow "on the tops of the moors" and I wake up to a good inch
being 1000 feet lower than the "tops of the moors". Media forecasts are fine
if you live in low-lying cities but live anywhere remote and quite frankly
conditions often don't resemble what's being said.

Will (Haytor, Devon)
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