record rainfall in Andalucia
 

My friend's wife, who is from Jerez brought this to my attention n New
Year's Eve. She said her mother had never seen rain like it and that
the local car park - which is a long way from a river - had floodwater
reaching past saloon cars' wing mirrors

http://www.theolivepress.es/2009/12/...-record-books/

They talk in terms of litres of rain - does anyone know what this is
in standard mm?

record rainfall in Andalucia
 

"Scott W" wrote in message
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My friend's wife, who is from Jerez brought this to my attention n New
Year's Eve. She said her mother had never seen rain like it and that
the local car park - which is a long way from a river - had floodwater
reaching past saloon cars' wing mirrors

http://www.theolivepress.es/2009/12/...-record-books/

They talk in terms of litres of rain - does anyone know what this is
in standard mm?

Litres per meter cubed = millimetres. So, 400mm. 709mm, 1200mm, 400mm,
322mm. As for the 2000 cubic hectometres, just sit back and worry.
2,000,000,000,000 litres, = 2 cubic kilometres.

jim, Northampton

record rainfall in Andalucia
 

On Jan 2, 1:37*am, "jbm" wrote:

Litres per meter cubed = millimetres.

Just a nitpick, but it's litres per metre squared.

1 litre = 1000 cm^3, and 1 square metre = 10000 cm^2, so 1 litre/m^2 =
0.1 cm

(And, as an aside, a litre of water weighs 1 kg, so the record
Cumbrian rainfall back in November saw a metric ton of water fall in
24 hours on an area of a just over 3 square metres... or a square a
little under 6 feet on each side!)

record rainfall in Andalucia
 

RK wrote:
On Jan 2, 1:37 am, "jbm" wrote:

Litres per meter cubed = millimetres.

Just a nitpick, but it's litres per metre squared.

1 litre = 1000 cm^3, and 1 square metre = 10000 cm^2, so 1 litre/m^2 =
0.1 cm

(And, as an aside, a litre of water weighs 1 kg, so the record
Cumbrian rainfall back in November saw a metric ton of water fall in
24 hours on an area of a just over 3 square metres... or a square a
little under 6 feet on each side!)

Some December 2009 Rain totals for Southern Spain etc.
Most fell during the last two weeks of the month.

507.7mm Gibraltar
313.0mm Malaga/Aeropuerto(16m)
278.5mm Jerez De La Frontera Aeropuerto(27m)
276.7mm Sevilla/San Pablo(34m)
220.9mm Moron De La Frontera(87m)
184.3mm Granada/Aeropuerto(567m)
136.7mm Almeria/Aeropuerto(15m)


Also
382.4mm Santiago/Labacolla(370m) Spain
272.4mm Vigo/Peinador(264m)
316.2mm Flores(29m)-Azores
243.1mm Horta(62m)
245.0mm Lajes(55m)
249.6mm Angra do Heroismo(76m)
252.4mm Santa Maria
284.7mm Funchal (55m)-Madeira
420.2mm Viseu(644m) Portugal

677.0mm Antalya(54m) Turkey

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Keith (Southend)
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e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net