xmetman wrote:

On Saturday, 5 December 2015 16:56:58 UTC, Norman wrote:
xmetman wrote:

On Saturday, 5 December 2015 15:59:41 UTC, wrote:
On Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 9:53:18 AM UTC, xmetman wrote:
Wettest places [06-06]
0600 UTC on 4 December - 0600 UTC on Saturday, 5 December 2015
In WMO Block 03

[01] 03225 Shap United Kingdom 252 M 72.2
2.84

The Shap total over the 21 hours ending at 3pm this afternoon is 141.4mm
(5.57 inches), and the result of between 6 and 9 mm having fallen each
hour since about 7pm yesterday evening.

Dick Lovett

Dick

Where did you get a 1500 UTC total for Shap from?
It couldn't be from it's SYNOP because they only report rainfall at main
hours.

Bruce.

The SREW41 collective issued hourly by the Met Office is a collection of
hourly rainfall totals from numerous sites across the UK, including Shap.
Only available on a subscription basis, though. It costs me something like
£500 per annum but I use the data for work purposes.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Norman

I'm getting confused here - I thought I'd fired that question at Dick Lovett
- you don't have another alias do you!

I wrote an application to display and graph data from SREW41 before I took
early retirement, and have been fighting a losing battle to free-up data like
that and SFERICs ever since.

I think it contained a lot more than the 158 UK SYNOP stations, but not the
hourly totals from the EA gauge network, which is of course, not freely
distributed either.

I suppose that £500 annual subscription they levy for it, means that they'll
never free it up either, which is a great pity.

Bruce.

They say that the data are 'free'. The fee is a data handling charge. The data
are delivered via push FTP.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

xmetman wrote:

On Saturday, 5 December 2015 17:05:31 UTC, wrote:
On Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 4:36:03 PM UTC, xmetman wrote:
On Saturday, 5 December 2015 15:59:41 UTC, wrote:
On Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 9:53:18 AM UTC, xmetman wrote:
Wettest places [06-06]
0600 UTC on 4 December - 0600 UTC on Saturday, 5 December 2015
In WMO Block 03

[01] 03225 Shap United Kingdom 252 M 72.2
2.84

The Shap total over the 21 hours ending at 3pm this afternoon is
141.4mm (5.57 inches), and the result of between 6 and 9 mm having
fallen each hour since about 7pm yesterday evening.

Dick Lovett

Dick

Where did you get a 1500 UTC total for Shap from?
It couldn't be from it's SYNOP because they only report rainfall at main
hours.

Bruce.

I got the figure by adding up the hourly totals that are available via
Meteogroup's Weathercast 'Weather stations' page.

That's very clever - and it doesn't cost £500 a year!

That is excellent. I didn't know those obs were there. Unfortunately, when I
need the data it's usually for some time a few years in the past. The
Weathercast site doesn't help with that! I get enough use out of the data to
justify the £500 per year subscription but it would obviously be out of the
question for 'recreational' use.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org