On 22/11/2013 09:47, wrote:
Could anyone direct me to suitable places to find daily rainfall figures for September 1980 for a station in (north)(west) London ?


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/t/3/Sep1980.pdf

tells me that

"during evening of 20th, band of heavy rain and thunderstorms moved northwestwards from west sussex across south midlands and Wales"

and

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/...rackstorm.html

says 20th September 1980 tops the list of the 5 wettest days in Bracknell with 70.8mm

but I don't know if the storms hit London.

I ask as I am interested in the modelling behind the overflowing of my local sewage works into the Thames and the "typical" rain year used includes September 1980 :

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reque...ncoming-451813

Version AB of the response mentions that the list of storm discharges has been updated to include storms in September 1980 and then doesn't actually list any in that month !


Go to http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/archive/british-rainfall and select
1980. Download and try a search by place-name otherwise just wade
through the data from page 24 onwards - the Thames Water Authority area.
Look for the highest daily fall in right hand column. A quick glance at
hard copy here suggest the action was to the west and south-west on the
London area.

Nothing of note in Epping for that date.

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George in Epping, west Essex, 350'asl
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk