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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. -- Cheers Dave. |
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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. -- Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl. |
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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 -- Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy "I wear the cheese. It does not wear me." |
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