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Rapid convective developments taking place over Dartmoor right now.
Heavy rain set in rapidly, big drops and lots of them.
Bright radar echoes to north and east.
Wouldn't be surprised to hear thunder soon.

Will
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2110

Torrential rain. Patio under water. Spot reading on AWS indicated 51
mm/h. For a few seconds it was tropical intensity much higher than
that. Coming down in bursts, one minute fairly quiet, the next
clattering onto the velux.

It's been pretty bad in Somerset over the last hour or two - we're
actually less flooded here than yesterday but news is coming in about
problems across the levels....

Scene last evening:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7426738.stm

Wrong url

http://www.flickr.com/photos/treetop...os/2533880555/


Thanks.
I reckon we may see more of this in the days to come!
Take care.

If it carries on overnight I reckon work from home tomorrow!


I'm lucky, I don't work Fridays anymore!
A good storm to watch would be fantastic :-)

Yeah - since I got my Digital SLR the storms have avoided my lenses!

On May 29, 9:30*pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
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2055

Rapid convective developments taking place over Dartmoor right now.
Heavy rain set in rapidly, big drops and lots of them.
Bright radar echoes to north and east.
Wouldn't be surprised to hear thunder soon.

Will
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2110

Torrential rain. Patio under water. Spot reading on AWS indicated 51 mm/h.
For a few seconds it was tropical intensity much higher than that. Coming
down in bursts, one minute fairly quiet, the next clattering onto the
velux.

Will
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2120

90 mm/h now.
Patio still under water.
Severe weather warning just issued for Devon :-)

Will
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I know! Amazing! It wasn't there an hour and a half ago! The warnings
were for areas further East and North, not for Devon. The convergence
zone has drifted further West. Heavy rain (again) in Dawlish now.

Paul

Cobbacombe radar suggests rainfall totals (10:00-21:00) in the region of
60-70mm around Bruton.

Chris



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Subject: {WR} Haytor 29/5/08 (Developments)

2055

Rapid convective developments taking place over Dartmoor right now.
Heavy rain set in rapidly, big drops and lots of them.
Bright radar echoes to north and east.
Wouldn't be surprised to hear thunder soon.

Will

A few rumbles of thunder around 1800Z with light to moderate rain since.

Jon. (tropical east Devon)

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2055

Rapid convective developments taking place over Dartmoor right now.
Heavy rain set in rapidly, big drops and lots of them.
Bright radar echoes to north and east.
Wouldn't be surprised to hear thunder soon.

Will
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2110

Torrential rain. Patio under water. Spot reading on AWS indicated 51
mm/h. For a few seconds it was tropical intensity much higher than that.
Coming down in bursts, one minute fairly quiet, the next clattering onto
the velux.

Will
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2120

90 mm/h now.
Patio still under water.
Severe weather warning just issued for Devon :-)

Will
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2135

Intensity back down now to normal Dartmoor heavy rain levels of circa 10
mm/h, patio water draining away quickly. Still no lightning or thunder.
May be more torrential bursts to come though.

Will
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30/5/08

Took the precaution of emptying the gauge before today's predicted deluge to
prevent the possibility of overflow (I read 1800-1800) and yesterday's
measured event total was 31.0 mm.

This raises the possibility of a 250mm+ May month which is more like a good
December total than May.
December average here is 209mm.

Feels tropical outside, sticky and still and dripping wet. Temperature
13.1C, humidity 99%.
You'd really hate this weather Ken :-)

Will (Haytor, Devon "home of the raindrop", 1017 feet asl)
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:53:39 +0100, Will Hand wrote in


Took the precaution of emptying the gauge before today's predicted deluge to
prevent the possibility of overflow (I read 1800-1800) and yesterday's
measured event total was 31.0 mm.

This raises the possibility of a 250mm+ May month which is more like a good
December total than May.
December average here is 209mm.

I don't think we have reached 10mm here in Coleraine for May. The lawns
are suffering and huge cracks are forming in the soil.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 30/05/2008 08:59:28 GMT

On May 30, 7:59 am, Mike Tullett wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:53:39 +0100, Will Hand wrote in


Took the precaution of emptying the gauge before today's predicted deluge to
prevent the possibility of overflow (I read 1800-1800) and yesterday's
measured event total was 31.0 mm.

This raises the possibility of a 250mm+ May month which is more like a good
December total than May.
December average here is 209mm.

I don't think we have reached 10mm here in Coleraine for May. The lawns
are suffering and huge cracks are forming in the soil.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 30/05/2008 08:59:28 GMT

That is a good example of how chaotic climate is, with unseasonal high
rainfall only a few hundred miles away from drought conditions. No
wonder that global warming is difficult to detect :-(

Cheers, Alastair.

On Fri, 30 May 2008 01:28:57 -0700 (PDT), Alastair wrote in


That is a good example of how chaotic climate is, with unseasonal high
rainfall only a few hundred miles away from drought conditions. No
wonder that global warming is difficult to detect :-(

Yes and I'm amazed such a small area as the British Isles, on the synoptic
scale, can have such huge variations.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 30/05/2008 09:33:45 GMT

On 30 May, 07:53, "Will Hand" wrote:
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Feels tropical outside, sticky and still and dripping wet. Temperature
13.1C, humidity 99%.
You'd really hate this weather Ken :-)

Will (Haytor, Devon "home of the raindrop", 1017 feet asl)

Will,
How right you are! Around 20C yesterday with sunbathing, back down to
12C today and not sunbathing. 17mm in past three days here, how will
our drains cope? I think the rain's over for now though (:0)
As we always say, each to his own.
Ken
Copley, Teesdale, NE England rain-shadow

On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:33:45 +0100, Mike Tullett wrote in


That is a good example of how chaotic climate is, with unseasonal high
rainfall only a few hundred miles away from drought conditions. No
wonder that global warming is difficult to detect :-(

Yes and I'm amazed such a small area as the British Isles, on the synoptic
scale, can have such huge variations.

And today continues this very long dry spell with unbroken sunshine and
temperatures in the 20s away from the north coast. A little while ago
Malin Head was 14C, whilst Ballykelly was 22C and Aldergrove 23C.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 31/05/2008 14:21:47 GMT

On 30 May, 09:33, Mike Tullett wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 01:28:57 -0700 (PDT), Alastair wrote in


That is a good example of how chaotic climate is, with unseasonal high
rainfall only a few hundred miles away from drought conditions. No
wonder that global warming is difficult to detect :-(

Yes and I'm amazed such a small area as the British Isles, on the synoptic
scale, can have such huge variations.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W *posted 30/05/2008 09:33:45 *GMT

With a situation like this there are often very big variations in just
a few miles. Currently about 8C different between Camborne & Penzance,
just 7 miles or so apart. (Opposite coasts.)

Also there's been flooding near Truro/Falmouth (info from MCC) whilst
Penzance has 5 completely dry days, and looks almost certain to have a
drier than average May.

Graham
Penzance