An analysis of the autographic chart from the Wokingham weather station
confirms that the rain shower at 0935Z on the 26th was in the heavy
category, just. The max rate was 10 mm/hr, the total duration was just over
4 minutes, and the total fall was 0.25 mm. Rainfall radar for that time
shows only blue intensity echoes. I was out cycling about 1.5 hours later,
and the still wet (in patches) roads with puddles only extended a few
hundred metres westwards from here. We had further light rain/drizzle
during the morning, as you did in Bracknell, Martin, but not enough to wet
the ground.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.


Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html

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An analysis of the autographic chart from the Wokingham weather
station
confirms that the rain shower at 0935Z on the 26th was in the heavy
category, just. The max rate was 10 mm/hr, the total duration was just
over
4 minutes, and the total fall was 0.25 mm. Rainfall radar for that
time
shows only blue intensity echoes. I was out cycling about 1.5 hours
later,
and the still wet (in patches) roads with puddles only extended a few
hundred metres westwards from here. We had further light rain/drizzle
during the morning, as you did in Bracknell, Martin, but not enough to
wet
the ground.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

.... all the years I've been in the business, it still amazes me these
quite significant differences within only a few miles. The sky looked
quite threatening *here* not long after your report, but the rain we got
didn't even wet the pavements/roads etc. I suppose it must have been an
even smaller feature than the resolution of the radar network?

Martin.