According to
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg...cgi?2006_10_06
can anyone back that up?

wrote:
According to
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg...cgi?2006_10_06
can anyone back that up?

Not quite. I am about 18 kms to the southwest of Cambridge. As the
cold front came through, there were two bursts of phenomenal rain with
a short gap between. I recorded about 7 mms in as many minutes, but
the day total was only 10 mms. However, I could well imagine that had
the shower distribution been very slightly different, we could easily
have got the sort of figure you are quoting. It really was one of the
most intense rainfalls I have seen. I watched from quite close
quarters in fact. I had just gone to the garage and was "trapped"
inside for those 7 minutes.

Jack

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:25:11 +0100, wrote:

According to
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg...cgi?2006_10_06
can anyone back that up?

The rainfall gauge was reading something like 48mm after the morning's
fairly light rainfall (as observed 12km to the east anyway), which made me
very suspicious. The short period of very heavy rain early afternoon
added 6mm to the total, which I thought was reasonable.


Mike

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According to
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg...cgi?2006_10_06
can anyone back that up?



I note a [different ?] Cambridge Station reporting 6.1 mm total for 6th Oct
with Total 10.2mm for month.
http://www.wunderground.com/weathers...=6&yea r=2006
also Sawston just to S of Cambridge 7.9 mm on 6th and 8.4mm for month.

Here in Mid Suffolk yesterdays cold front produced 3.8mm.
NSS

On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Jennikhbm (Suffolk) wrote:
" wrote in message
...
According to
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg...cgi?2006_10_06
can anyone back that up?



I note a [different ?] Cambridge Station reporting 6.1 mm total for 6th Oct
with Total 10.2mm for month.
http://www.wunderground.com/weathers...=6&yea r=2006
also Sawston just to S of Cambridge 7.9 mm on 6th and 8.4mm for month.

Here in Mid Suffolk yesterdays cold front produced 3.8mm.
NSS

Thanks, I was away for the day and a colleague said the rain had been
intense but I couldn't quite believe those figures. That university
weather station seems to be very unreliable, one wonders if anyone in that
department actually makes use of the data.