Looking at the local current weather page for NE England on the Met
Office site shows :

Last 24 hours: UKHighest max 10.1 °C Isles Of Scilly
Lowest max -2.2 °C Topcliffe
Lowest min -6.3 °C Aboyne
Highest rainfall 6.6 mm Durham
Sunniest 7.0 hours Camborne

Last updated: 2307 on Wed 20 Dec 2006

Where on earth did the 6.6 mm for Durham rainfall come from? There's
been no precipitation at all of note for 6 days here. Melting
rime/frost has contributed 0.4 mm to my rainfall figure here in
Ferryhill in that time (6 miles south of Durham), so where do they get
6.6 mm from?

Durham

bleep wrote:
Looking at the local current weather page for NE England on the Met
Office site shows :

Last 24 hours: UKHighest max 10.1 °C Isles Of Scilly
Lowest max -2.2 °C Topcliffe
Lowest min -6.3 °C Aboyne
Highest rainfall 6.6 mm Durham
Sunniest 7.0 hours Camborne

Last updated: 2307 on Wed 20 Dec 2006

Where on earth did the 6.6 mm for Durham rainfall come from? There's
been no precipitation at all of note for 6 days here. Melting
rime/frost has contributed 0.4 mm to my rainfall figure here in
Ferryhill in that time (6 miles south of Durham), so where do they get
6.6 mm from?

Durham

Hi, Dave,

It happens with monotonous regularity - we take little notice of the
Durham readings at the NE Centre Royal Metsoc meetings.The demise of
the Durham obs is so sad after so many years of meticulous readings.
The fact that quality control at the Met O doesn't pick up the errors
is even sadder!
We have very few stations in this area that appear on the synoptic
network and this only adds to my theory that we don't really matter to
the Met O up here. However, I'll keep plugging away with the Copley
obs.

Ken
Copley, nr Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham

bleep wrote:

Looking at the local current weather page for NE England on the Met
Office site shows :

Last 24 hours: UKHighest max 10.1 °C Isles Of Scilly
Lowest max -2.2 °C Topcliffe
Lowest min -6.3 °C Aboyne
Highest rainfall 6.6 mm Durham
Sunniest 7.0 hours Camborne

Last updated: 2307 on Wed 20 Dec 2006

Where on earth did the 6.6 mm for Durham rainfall come from? There's
been no precipitation at all of note for 6 days here.

Many of the observations on the MetO site are strange to say the least.

Culdrose was reporting FOG all morning, but the MINIMUM visibility
reported was 18km.

Yesterday morning at 11:00 Scilly was reporting 21km, when I could see
the islands clearly from around 32 miles away.

and so on

Graham
Penzance