On Friday, 14 February 2014 13:10:03 UTC, Scott W wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2014 12:32:30 PM 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/

Thanks Bruce. The map shows good correlation with my own figure of 240mm in Wanstead so far to 09z today. What I find remarkable is that just 17 miles from me, across the Thames at Kenley, there has been 524mm recorded - that's 220% of my total. What is your total to 09z today, Tudor? And what is your winter average?

Hi, Scott - the total here up to this morning is 51l mm and there is moderate to heavy rain as I write. The normals for Dec, Jan and Feb are 86, 86 and 60 mm respectively. Taking a proportion of the February average my total is 256% of normal since 1 Dec.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.