On Friday, 14 February 2014 14:03:27 UTC, Ken Cook wrote:


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

Hi, Bruce and all,
I'll post to this thread as the Haytor one has been lost to the bickerers.

LONG TERM AVERAGES, Seathwaite for the months in question
Dec 393.2mm
Jan 408.2mm
Feb 320.0mm
Season average 1121.4mm
Annual average 3098.8mm
Annual average on Seathwaite Fell gauges 4699.0mm

1000mm for winter is below average there!

Ken,
Copley