Well, what a day!

Classic situation for an extreme rainfall event. Deep, slow moving low, warm
occlusion wrapped around it with a feed of cold air on its northern edge, with
warmer air to the south. I did a study of Extreme rainfall events in the 20th
Century (published in Met Applications 2004) and today's is archetypal of
frontal extreme rainfall events. Highest rainfall totals I found were normally
close to the low centre and in the N-NW quadrants in respect to the low. So this
event is not unusual but also not common, worthy of a decent write-up by
somebody I'd say!

Will.
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" I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything
I cannot explain as fraud. Carl Jung "

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On 25 Jun, 21:36, "Will Hand" wrote:
Well, what a day!

Classic situation for an extreme rainfall event. Deep, slow moving low, warm
occlusion wrapped around it with a feed of cold air on its northern edge, with
warmer air to the south. I did a study of Extreme rainfall events in the 20th
Century (published in Met Applications 2004) and today's is archetypal of
frontal extreme rainfall events. Highest rainfall totals I found were normally
close to the low centre and in the N-NW quadrants in respect to the low. So this
event is not unusual but also not common, worthy of a decent write-up by
somebody I'd say!

Will.
--

" I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything
I cannot explain as fraud. Carl Jung "

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Philip Eden in Saturday's Telegraph would be nice. Or perhaps Paul
Simons in TImes tomorrow...