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Old December 5th 15, 05:15 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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On Saturday, 5 December 2015 16:56:58 UTC, Norman wrote:
xmetman wrote:

On Saturday, 5 December 2015 15:59:41 UTC, wrote:
On Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 9:53:18 AM UTC, xmetman wrote:
Wettest places [06-06]
0600 UTC on 4 December - 0600 UTC on Saturday, 5 December 2015
In WMO Block 03

[01] 03225 Shap United Kingdom 252 M 72.2
2.84

The Shap total over the 21 hours ending at 3pm this afternoon is 141.4mm
(5.57 inches), and the result of between 6 and 9 mm having fallen each hour
since about 7pm yesterday evening.

Dick Lovett


Dick

Where did you get a 1500 UTC total for Shap from?
It couldn't be from it's SYNOP because they only report rainfall at main
hours.

Bruce.


The SREW41 collective issued hourly by the Met Office is a collection of hourly
rainfall totals from numerous sites across the UK, including Shap. Only
available on a subscription basis, though. It costs me something like £500 per
annum but I use the data for work purposes.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org


Norman

I'm getting confused here - I thought I'd fired that question at Dick Lovett - you don't have another alias do you!

I wrote an application to display and graph data from SREW41 before I took early retirement, and have been fighting a losing battle to free-up data like that and SFERICs ever since.

I think it contained a lot more than the 158 UK SYNOP stations, but not the hourly totals from the EA gauge network, which is of course, not freely distributed either.

I suppose that £500 annual subscription they levy for it, means that they'll never free it up either, which is a great pity.

Bruce.