On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 4:39:41 PM UTC, Dave Ludlow wrote:
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 08:14:34 -0800 (PST), Dawlish
wrote:

On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 12:46:06 AM UTC, Scott W wrote:
Reports of EnvAgency rain gauge reporting 351.8mm in 24hrs at Honister near Keswick (Cumbria). This could be a record? The nearest high 24hr total I can find is 279mm at Martinstown, Dorset, on July 18, 1955

Today, BBC.

'The Met Office confirms that Cumbria received 341.4mm of rainfall in the 24-hour period from 1830 GMT on Friday 4 December to 1830 GMT on Saturday 5.

This beats the previous record set at Seathwaite, Cumbria, of 316.4mm on 19 November 2009.'

Met Office Twitter says it's for the 24h period ending 6pm... also
mentions that Thirlmere too beat the previous record, at 322.6mm.

Just noticed the Met Office comment as part of that:

"Prof Dame Julia Slingo, chief scientist at the Met Office, said these
"extraordinary amounts of water" broke records going back to the
1800s."

But what they omit to mention is that 24 hour rainfall totals for
non-standard periods like this are not available for most stations for
most of that period of time 'since the 1800s'

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Dave
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