Hi, All,
Power now back on after outage from 1430Z Wednesday to 0430Z today
Copley storm yesterday afternoon details:-

1400Z - 1440Z = 53.0mm
1440Z - 1630Z further 22.2mm
1630Z - 1800Z = further 10.5mm
1800Z - 1930Z = 2.2mm

Storm total = 87.9mm

All checked by manual gauge as power off and Davis battery died (just
my luck

Constant thunder and lightning throughout.

Ken
Copley, nr Barnard Castle, Teesdale, Countyh Durham
http://copley.website.orange.co.uk

Ken.

Impressive readings !!

Just a TRACE this side of the Pennines, a few rumbles heard 4pm and 7
drops of rain otherwise dry and very warm

Paul C

Brampton NE Cumbria

www.bramptonweather.co.uk

On 2 July, 08:50, Paul Crabtree wrote:
Ken.

Impressive readings !!

Just a TRACE this side of the Pennines, a few rumbles heard 4pm and 7
drops of rain otherwise dry and very warm

Hi, Paul,
It seemed to like Copley, just hung around for about 3 hours!
Power still intermitent this morning. I'll try to find other totals
from the Environment Agency. There are bound to be higher ones than
Copley further up Teesdale.
Ken

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:11:05 -0700 (PDT), Ken Cook wrote:

1400Z - 1440Z = 53.0mm
1440Z - 1630Z further 22.2mm
1630Z - 1800Z = further 10.5mm
1800Z - 1930Z = 2.2mm

Storm total = 87.9mm

Cor you copped it there Ken. First sign of something nasty on the
ways was the complete loss of DSAT signals about 1730, the lightening
started about 1745 and the rain about 1900 for about 1/2 an hour
giving about 7mm in the tipping buckets.

2" in 40 minutes is going some, 3" or 75mm/hour!

--
Cheers
Dave.

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:11:05 -0700, Ken Cook wrote:

Hi, All,
Power now back on after outage from 1430Z Wednesday to 0430Z today
Copley storm yesterday afternoon details:-

1400Z - 1440Z = 53.0mm
snip

That really is impressive! How does it compare with your record hourly
rainfall? Can't be far off, surely.

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

On 2 July, 22:31, David Buttery wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:11:05 -0700, Ken Cook wrote:
Hi, All,
Power now back on after outage from 1430Z Wednesday to 0430Z today
Copley storm yesterday afternoon details:-

1400Z - 1440Z = 53.0mm

snip

That really is impressive! How does it compare with your record hourly
rainfall? Can't be far off, surely.

Hi, David,

All new territory for me! After 50+ years' recording there are still
surprises.
Rain isn't top of my list, so I don't track records but I'm sure the
Environment Agency will let me know eventually. They have a recording
gauge on-site that is linked to a river level warning system in the
area. Unfortunately my system went haywire and all AWS recording was
lost for the whole event, but as you suggest, it must be my highest
hourly fall and scanning my Davis graphs, nothing seems to come near.
It turns out I have been lucky as most of the village still has no
telephone or internet. Several TV sets were ruined by lightning and
many homes flooded. It seems that even at 1000ft we are still not safe
from flooding! Electricity is now restored to most houses.
We have another Met O severe weather warning now as the rain pours
again. The last one was pretty good!!!!

Best wishes,
Ken
Copley