"Ken Cook" wrote in message
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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!


Just read my rainfall for 24 hours up to 1800 GMT today at 49.9mm (5 inch
copper MKII gauge).

Haytor February total now 247.5
January was 368.3
December 407.7 mm

This brings the winter total up to 1023.5 mm or 1.0235 metres.

Not that far off the seassonal average for Seathwaite (1121.4 mm). I've
often wondered what it might be like to live there in winter, I have now had
a taster :-)

Will
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