"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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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.

According to J H Brazell's London Weather,the wettest winter at Kew (by far)
was 1914/15 with a total of 357mm,which is way below Tudors total to date
,presumably the Surrey heights must have produced even more than this year
but I don' t suppose there was a rain recorder there at the time.
Anyone with the annual rainfall statistics like Philip Eden could come up
with some interesting facts ,maybe his weekly peice in the Sunday Torygraph
will reveal some ......


RonB