In message ,
Colin Youngs writes

Glenanne and Redesdale 18 mm, Carlisle 19 mm, Aberdaron 21 mm,
Sennybridge 22 mm, Eskdalemuir 24 mm, Mona (Anglesey) 25 mm, West
Freugh and Capel Curig 26 mm, Keswick and St Bees Head 27 mm,
Dundrennan, Shap and Valley 28 mm, Ronaldsway (IOM) 48 mm.


Colin Youngs
Brussels

Ronaldsway recorded 48 mms, I live up in the northern Manx hills
(Ronaldsway is 25 miles away on the SE coast ), I recorded 94 mm on
Thursday 3rd December.

The back of our house is no more than 10 feet away, and 10 feet above,
the island's biggest river, the Sulby. Thursday was the highest I've
seen it in 25 years of living here. It literally came within a whisker,
a couple of inches, of flooding the house, which has never happened
before. Between 13.00 and 17.00 my Davis Vantage Vue showed rainfall of
78mm. I'm not sure just how accurate my rain gauge is but know it didn't
half throw it down. Never seen rain so heavy go on for so long before
and at 64 I'm pretty old.

Don't, will not, get into the climate change debate here I don't know
what to think. What I can say for sure is that over the last 8 years
I've been keeping records mean temps have risen slightly and rainfall
has increased markedly. I know 8 years isn't much and is certainly not
enough to make a decision on climate change, before somebody points it
out.

Cheers
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Jim