"Will Hand" wrote in message
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"Nigel Paice" wrote in message
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A further prolonged period of heavy rain has resulted in our
second 10+mm hour today and the event total stands at a
whopping 42.3mm. The road to Romsey from neighbouring
North Baddesley is currently impassable to ordinary cars
due to the depth of water, almost unheard of at this location.


Cool! Excellent stuff, keep those reports coming Nigel. I suspect in your
part of the world such totals normally occur with thunderstorms not slow
moving fronts?

Just been boring "drizzle" here on Dartmoor with 5-10mm.

Will
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Thanks Will,

I am aware that you occasionally record such values
at Haytor but I can now confirm that our 42.0mm of
rain (and counting) that has fallen today is the highest
total (period 0900-0900Z) in any month for almost 24
years when 47.0mm fell on 9th October 1987, just a
week before the infamous Great Storm.

Only three other days have notched up 40mm or more,
the highest of these was 40.6mm on 27th October 1990.

To answer your question and perhaps surprisingly,
only one out of those four high totals included a
thunderstorm.

Our local brook that can flood, mainly after weeks
of rain in the autumn and winter, has remained within
its banks today but it's the paved areas that have
collected the unusually large ponds.

The neighbour's sunflower has shrunk by a foot !

Nigel