"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote
About 200m from the Stockingstone roundabout. May I
ask who's asking?

Philip



I live close to Asda in Wigmore right on the Herts Border with Cockenhoe
just a short walk away. I guess the Luton gauge is a good indicator of
rainfall where I live. I can't remember such a long period of continuous
rain for a few years.

09-09h totals he
26 May 12.7 mm - all fell 20z-09z
27 May 37.7 mm (i.e. 24 hours ending 0900z 28 May)

Event total 26 May/20z to 28 May/09z 50.4 mm and counting.

The 27 May rainday fall is the highest daily fall in May since 1932 on
local daily records (gauges within 6 km of this site), and the third-
highest since those records commenced in 1910. The only wetter May
days on the record have been 40.6 mm on 13 May 1915 and 37.8 mm on 21
May 1932.

To date (it's still raining) 29 hours unbroken rainfall (at least 0.2
mm in each clock hour).

Air min this morning in unbroken rr/RR 4.6°C at 0520. Earth temp at 30
cm (tube thermometer) has fallen 2.1 degC in the last 24 hours.

Stephen
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire (10 km SW of Reading)

On May 27, 3:21 pm, Tudor Hughes wrote:
There is a Severe Weather Warning out for SE England (except
Sussex) for heavy rain. Also, on R4 1257 pm some gushing girlie
mentioned a couple of inches of rain (I think) for SE England this
afternoon and evening. So far I've had 5.2 mm today, none of it
heavy, and it has not been raining for the last two hours. Looking at
the radar I can't quite see where this professed deluge is coming
from. Can anybody else?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.

Better answer my own question, I suppose. The rain fell
overnight, and this morning I measured a total for the day of 31.3
mm. Even so, it hardly merited a Severe Weather Warning, and the
timing of this was completely wrong.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:

At 0900z on the 28th the event total at Whipsnade is up to
64.8mm. It has been raining continuously for 27.5h, and it has
rained for 33.1h of the last 37 according to the Dynes TSR.
The Luton figure will be appreciably higher, but I won't pick
that up until this evening.

Final event rainfall (20z on Sat to 20z on Mon) was
70mm at Whipsnade (today's rain estimated from TSR record)
and 99mm at Luton (recorded in a standard rain-gauge
with a standard measuring cylinder). The extensive flooding
in low-lying parts of Luton which triggered the cancellation
of the Carnival was testament to the exceptional fall in the
town.

Philip