Rainfall - Last Monday 22nd Sept - here in Alresford we
had showers/drizzle on/off in the PM - not a lot of
the wet stuff came down, the roads/pavements dried
out between showers, neither do I have a scientific
rain gauge and I didn't check my 'water collection'
until Tues am, to my surprise, there was approx 1.5 mm
of rain water in both collection units .I have read on this ng
others posting much larger amounts of rain for that day - as I
say, I was surprised how little we had - I have had to water
the garden on 2 or 3 occasions during this past 6 days -
my front lawn has had it for this year, burnt out - so
Q. Is there a site near here (Alresford mid Hants) where
I can view the usual weather data ?

cheers Jrm



On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:15:50 +0100, Dave Ludlow
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:36:07 +0100, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

"martin rowley" wrote in message
...
to 28/0900Z September 2003:

1. September rainfall .. 6.2mm (10% eLTA 1971-2000)
easily the DRIEST September for our short record (began 1999); previous
driest September 2002 with 26mm.

Martin, you're nearly the lowest in the UK ... 3.3mm at Bognor, but
I'm a bit suspicious of the 1.5mm on the 22nd there.

Philip, I have hi-res copies of hourly radar imagery for that date and
it's reasonably consistent with the 1.5mm reported at Bognor. The rain
was light and patchy in this area and some locations over and just
East of the Isle of Wight may have had no moderate rain at all.

The radar indicates that St Catherines point and Thorney Island would
have had rainfall amounts similar to Bognor; a quick check of
WeatherOnline indicates 24 hour totals of 0.8mm and 3.2mm
respectively. Shoreham was reported as 2.2mm, all in line with the
radar. Let me know if you'd like to see the images.