"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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I recorded 0.3mm of rain (well, one tip of the buckets on my Davis VP)
at 0415Z this morning. Now, the ground looks damp and there are puddles
on the flat roof next door, but I can't see anything on the radar and
looking around at other sites nearby, nowhere else seems to have
recorded any rain.

I guess it could've been an equipment problem or possibly even a
spider (would've had to have been quite a big spider) sitting in the
buckets?

.... we're quite a way from you (in Berkshire), but we too had 0.2mm of
rain (measured in standard gauge) and there *was* rain in the night
which the radar either didn't pick up or only presented the odd pixel
(at least in the resolution I have ... higher res. may have got it). For
you in Kent, the radar will often have difficulty in picking up such
from a low-level source.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley: data via -
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Bracknell (Wooden Hill/Tawfield), Berkshire
NGR: SU 854 667 Elev: 80m
Lat: 51DEG23MIN30SEC(N): Long: 00DEG46MIN28SEC(W)