"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

0850z SSW F2-3 30km 6Cu010 07.1/06.4 1005.9
RMK: Lt/mod rain 0045-0500, sharp shower 0635-40.
Wakened abruptly at 0640 ... may have been thunder
but can't be sure.

1150z SSW F3 35km 6Cu012 3Sc030 09.4/06.7 1006.7
RMK: Some Cu con. Slight shwr (few spots) 1050z.

Philip Eden
Whipsnade 214m

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote :
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

0850z SSW F2-3 30km 6Cu010 07.1/06.4 1005.9
RMK: Lt/mod rain 0045-0500, sharp shower 0635-40.
Wakened abruptly at 0640 ... may have been thunder
but can't be sure.

1150z SSW F3 35km 6Cu012 3Sc030 09.4/06.7 1006.7
RMK: Some Cu con. Slight shwr (few spots) 1050z

1750z SW F2 60km 2Sc030 5Ci270 05.6/03.7 1007.6
RMK: A pleasantly mild and mostly sunny afternoon

09-18: Tx 10.1 RR trace sss(00-18) 6.8

Philip Eden
Whipsnade 214m

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
"Graham P Davis" wrote:
Ron Button wrote:

I think it was Everton Fox at 0730 on Radio five live,that bit wasn't a
joke ......

My fuzzy memory of it was that someone else mentioned it, and quite a bit
earlier. Might have been Helen Blaby in the traffic report.

Ah, OK ... and could it be the Everton tried to add some factual
information to a vague traffic report by deducing from the radar
output that rain was falling at 10mm **per hour** in the area?

I'll not find out my own Luton figure until this evening, unfortunately.

Total rainfall 09-09 at Luton was 3.2mm ... I estimate that no more
than 2mm fell during the thunderstorm.

pe