On Friday, 14 February 2014 12:32:30 UTC, exmetman wrote:
Hi



I've spent the last couple of days wracked in pain from my first (and hopefully last) attack of shingles whilst writing an application to total rainfall up for this winter for the UK from the SYNOP observations that I download from FSU.



As well as a tabulated/ranked list of the accumulations, which Capel Curig is currently top of, there are a couple of plotted UK maps which I didn't contour, although its easy to see the wet spots. Hopefully I've got my logic right, and these totals that I've grabbed from the 0600 & 1800 UTC SYNOP observations are correct!



As far as I can see, it maybe that after today's rainfall, Haytor will beat Shap to 1000 mm, and be the wettest place at least in England, so far this winter.



Bruce.



http://xmetman.wordpress.com/2014/02...infall-totals/

Hello, Bruce,
Hope you're recovering well and thanks for the post.
Any chance of getting the figures from climat. site and not just SYNOP? I wrote in Will's Haytor post that I suspect there are some parts around Borrowdale where 1000mm in winter is not unusual.
Big bugbear of mine is that MetO are slow to report any figures from MetO official manual sites even though we send them in every morning. I know from MetO staff that they are analysed daily so why not use them?
The SYNOP network is only a small part of the rainfall observing system so to say these are the wettest, coldest, warmest etc for the whole country is misleading.
Ken
Copley, Teesdale