64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo at www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
I suspect overnight totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining

Got to go out - more details later.

Graham
Penzance

Graham Easterling wrote:
64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo at
www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html I suspect overnight
totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining

Got to go out - more details later.

Graham
Penzance

Sheesh! That should keep the new Flood Forecasting Centre in London busy!
More to come looking at the radar, very much look forward to your update
reports Graham - stay safe.

Will
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Graham Easterling wrote:
64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo at
www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html I suspect overnight
totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining

Got to go out - more details later.

Graham
Penzance

Graham was a warning issued?

Will
--

Graham Easterling wrote:
64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo at
www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html I suspect overnight
totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining

Got to go out - more details later.

Graham
Penzance

Could be some deaths? :-(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8018003.stm

Will
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On Apr 25, 10:32*am, "Will Hand" wrote:
Graham Easterling wrote:
64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo at
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...ar/index.htmlI suspect overnight
totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining

Got to go out - more details later.

Graham
Penzance

Could be some deaths? :-(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8018003.stm

Will
--

I looked at the radar around 2300 last night and it looked perilous at
that time for North and West Cornwall. There certainly wasn't a
warning at the time which surprised me. Having s.aid that, who would
have seen it at that time?????
If the rain had been marginally further South, could have been far
worse.

David Mitchell. Langtoft.

On 25 Apr, 10:22, "Will Hand" wrote:
Graham Easterling wrote:
64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo at
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...ar/index.htmlI suspect overnight
totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining

Got to go out - more details later.

Graham
Penzance

Graham was a warning issued?

Will
--

Just back.

No. There have been 2 major weather events here over the last 5 years.
The evening high tide March 2008, and last nights rain, no current
weather warning in place either time (as far as I'm aware.) Strange,
as that intense rain was sitting over the Penwith moors for hours on
end for anyone with access to rainfall radar to see. There was also
some thunder.

Rainfall at St Ives appears to have been similar to Penzance, the
worst stuff in between. I'll try to get figures for Trengwainton, just
north of Penzance.

Graham
Penzance

On 25 Apr, 11:05, wrote:
On Apr 25, 10:32*am, "Will Hand" wrote:





Graham Easterling wrote:
64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo at
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...x.htmlIsuspect overnight
totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining

Got to go out - more details later.

Graham
Penzance

Could be some deaths? :-(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8018003.stm

Will
--

I looked at the radar around 2300 last night and it looked perilous at
that time for North and West Cornwall. There certainly wasn't a
warning at the time which surprised me. Having s.aid that, who would
have seen it at that time?????
If the rain had been marginally further South, could have been far
worse.

David Mitchell. Langtoft.- Hide quoted text -


I think it was in a pretty bad place, centred between Penzance & St
Ives. A couple of years back St Ives would have been badly flooded, it
looks like the recently completed flood defence scheme worked.

Graham
Penzance

On 25 Apr, 08:32, Graham Easterling
wrote:
64.5mm overnight, but much more just to the north over the moors (take
a look at the stationery white echo atwww.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
I suspect overnight totals 100mm above St Ives. A real test for the
new flood defence work The stream in my garden is at it's highest
level since we moved in Aug '07. Still raining

Got to go out - more details later.

Graham
Penzance

Has anyone access to rainfall estimates based on radar images? - The
area just west/southwest of St Ives was the wettest (Zennor / New
Mill / Madron area)

Graham
Penzance

Will Hand wrote:

Graham was a warning issued?

Are they naming warnings now?

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

Graham P Davis wrote:
Will Hand wrote:

Graham was a warning issued?

Are they naming warnings now?

Eh? All I did was ask Graham E. if a warning was issued.

Will
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