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Old June 28th 12, 08:58 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Dudley - Very dark overhead & Lightning

On Jun 28, 6:09*pm, Michael Di Bernardo
wrote:
On Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:39:29 PM UTC+1, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 at 05:14:10, Michael Di Bernardo
wrote in uk.sci.weather :


Absolutely awful conditions across the area, flash flooding in many
areas. *Checking my records, 2 new ones have been set. *Highest rain
rate was recorded with 1080mm /hr


That's 42.5 inches an hour - really??
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)


Yeah, typo. 180mm /hr

Mike

www.dudleyweather.co.uk


Phew!

That's a relief.

On a 0.2mm tipping bucket 1080mm/hour would be one tip every 0.67
seconds (approx).