Ken Cook wrote:

Rainfall mm
Total 71.5 (91%) High 30.1 on 7th
Total AWS 45.2 (missed a lot of the horizontal rain during the gales!)
Rain days 23, Wet days 14, Hail 4

I would presume that the discrepancy was more to do with the siting of
the AWS than it's ability to record rain? Perhaps you could describe the
relative siting of the AWS and manual gauges?

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Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/