20.6mm of rain overnight hee in Southend-on-Sea.

Shoeburyness 29.0mm
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Keith (Southend)

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Keith (Southend) wrote:
20.6mm of rain overnight hee in Southend-on-Sea.

Shoeburyness 29.0mm

Looked like it would be a wet night here in Canterbury - about midnight,
a large storm looked to be getting closer with lightning every 30
seconds. However, it stayed a good 4 or 5 miles to the east. Only 1.0mm
overnight, bringing the monthly total for September to 5.1mm.

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Just a trace here, just 15 miles inland. It's amazing that yet again the
rain and storms passed up the North Sea coast through east Kent and the
coastal strip of Essex, which is supposed to be the driest region of the UK!
The rest seems to have gone to the West of London, earlier in the day. I've
no idea why this is happening so frequently (probably just a quirk) but it
is weird seeing Southend having so much more summer rain on the coast than
here, in land.

Dave, S.essex.
"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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20.6mm of rain overnight hee in Southend-on-Sea.

Shoeburyness 29.0mm
--
Keith (Southend)

'Weather Home & Abroad'
http://www.southendweather.net

Dave.C wrote:
Just a trace here, just 15 miles inland. It's amazing that yet again the
rain and storms passed up the North Sea coast through east Kent and the
coastal strip of Essex, which is supposed to be the driest region of the UK!
The rest seems to have gone to the West of London, earlier in the day. I've
no idea why this is happening so frequently (probably just a quirk) but it
is weird seeing Southend having so much more summer rain on the coast than
here, in land.

Dave, S.essex.
"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
...

20.6mm of rain overnight hee in Southend-on-Sea.

Shoeburyness 29.0mm
--
Keith (Southend)

'Weather Home & Abroad'
http://www.southendweather.net




It does seem to follow patterns like that in some years, probably find
next year a similar thing yet we miss the rain and you get it.

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Keith (Southend)

'Weather Home & Abroad'
http://www.southendweather.net

Dave.C wrote in message
...
: ...... It's amazing that yet again the
:rain and storms passed up the North Sea coast through east Kent and the
:coastal strip of Essex, which is supposed to be the driest region of the
UK!

Storms were concentrated on the other side of the North Sea in the south of
the Netherlands http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rsfloc3.gif

In and around Tilburg the fire services received more than 400 calls for
assistance after torrential rain in the early hours of the morning. In
Oosterhout the hospital was flooded and the roof of a shop collapsed.
Floodwater was up to 40 cm deep in places and entered some houses. A
number of roads were impassable in Tilburg and in the town of Rijen near the
Belgian border. Lightning strikes started fires in 3 houses.

Above information from Dutch TV teletext.

Gilze-Rijen airbase had 55 mm rain overnight and Rotterdam Airport 32 mm.
An amateur observer at Hendrik Ido Ambacht south of Rotterdam recorded 53.3
mm - much of it between 02.40 and 03.10 local time and accompanied by vivid
lightning and loud thunder.

Colin Youngs
Brussels