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Old June 11th 12, 12:16 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Curious persistent 'tail' of heavy rain over Hampshire / West Sussex

On Jun 11, 11:56*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Togless wrote:
Looking at the rain radar, there has been a fairly persistent 'tail' of
heavy rain running down roughly through Basingstoke, Winchester, Chichester
kind of area, and a few miles out to sea. *A friend who lives in Bosham is
unable to drive to work in Portsmouth due to flooding, and is looking
nervously at the very full mill stream running past his house. *Any idea why
this belt of heavy rain has been rather stuck over the same area for hours
instead of moving across the country, as the rest of the rain in the South
seems to be doing?


Cheers!


John.


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If you look at the radar stepwise you can see it is the result of the
centre of the small LP being located such that the perimeter is rotating
over that area perpetually replenishing the rainfall.


On what would I guess be the western edge of this in Southampton.
Since about 0900 it's been dark to the east and lighter to the west.
Heavy but not exceptional rain here. Good job it's Monday not the
weekend, that's all I can say!

Nick