On Monday, October 14, 2019 at 5:08:07 PM UTC+1, Norman Lynagh wrote:
wrote:

On Monday, October 14, 2019 at 8:56:22 AM UTC+1,
wrote:
What is even more staggering is that half a metre of rain in a day
is nowhere near record breaking

What puzzles me is, how reliable is the catchment of these large
raingauges when you have horizontal rain in these extreme wind
conditions?

Len

Probably not very reliable but, even if there is a plus/minus 10-20%
error it's still a heck of a lot of rain.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
twitter: @TideswellWeathr

The rainfall for the Coverack storm was originally based on 2 non tipping buckets in peoples garden, basic but nothing to go wrong. The subsequent radar estimate was close.

A good archive of accounts here
https://www.webarchive.org.uk/waybac...d_Archive.html

Graham
Penzance