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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8376031.stm

Nice and simple and the measuring glass shows very clearly how much
rain fell on Seathwaite over the 4 days 16-20 Nov. 490mm or 19.29" or
over a foot and half.

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On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:43:01 +0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8376031.stm

Nice and simple and the measuring glass shows very clearly how much rain
fell on Seathwaite over the 4 days 16-20 Nov. 490mm or 19.29" or over a
foot and half.


Thank you, and indeed thank you to Philip Eden: that's very clear even to
people such as me, so it must be well written!

I hadn't realised that the 316mm maximum 24-hour rainfall in this event
was precisely one millimetre *more* than the previous record for two
consecutive (standard) rainfall days - and so, as mentioned at the end of
the article, it is reasonable to say that this was the heaviest 24-hour
fall on record.

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Dave Liquorice wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8376031.stm

Nice and simple and the measuring glass shows very clearly how much
rain fell on Seathwaite over the 4 days 16-20 Nov. 490mm or 19.29" or
over a foot and half.


Agreed.

On 5-live Breakfast this morning, there was an interview with Peter Johnson,
an "amateur meteorologist", who mentioned a storm which knocked out all the
bridges on the Tyne bar one. He didn't mention when it occurred but I'm
assuming it was 1771 - the "largest flood for at least a thousand years". I
found a little more about it here on page 5 - http://1tinyurl.co.cc/?cp4sz9

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