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Old May 13th 07, 08:43 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
CHRIS KIDD CHRIS KIDD is offline
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Yes, and it's worth thinking about it - 1 litre (spelling please!) is 1 kg,
so for every 1 mm of rainfall, each 1 square km has 1,000 tonnes of water -
so today, with ~25mm of rainfall each square km had 25,000 tonnes of water!

Chris



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On 13 May, 21:20, Colin Youngs
wrote:
On 13 mai, 22:14, wrote:

Just a quick refresher for me please.When measuring rain are we
measuring what would be an accumulated depth on a level surface??


Yes.

Also is 1mm equivalent to 1 liter per square meter??


Yes.

Colin Youngs
Brussels


Thanks Colin-that was fast!!!