"Norman" wrote in message ...

Hi, Norman,
33mm here mostly between 18hr and 19hr with max rate on Davis of 88mm/hr.
20mm
fell between 1810hr and 1840hr. I was driving in it over to Middlesbrough
and
it wasn't pleasant.
A weather warning was definitely in order here!
Ken
Copley,
Teesdale

I've no problem with that, Ken. The warnings were certainly justified for
earlier on. My beef is that the warning is still current. The period of
validity does not expire till 2359 yet the radar shows that the rain is now
well clear of the whole of Northern England. The rain stopped here just
before
1700 BST and it has been a fine clear evening. Even so, the warning map
still
shows us covered with "custard" and that was reissued at 1707 BST. The
currency
of the warnings has not kept up with the evolving situation.

Point taken, in fact I seem to recall the Met O forecasters stating that the
rain band was moving quickly and would have passed through within an hour or
two, certainly well before midnight.
Ken