On Saturday, December 22, 2012 12:45:57 PM UTC, wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message

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Ian Bingham wrote:

AWS were a great step forward in weather observing but they have an

Achilles heel: they sometimes malfunction, and it’s not any Tom, Dick or

Harry who can fix them. For example just when we’re having an inordinate

amount of rainfall and we’re interested in knowing just how much, the

rainfall sensors of Aboyne and Shoeburyness have gone u/s – and those are

just the two I’ve noticed. I can’t see them getting fixed in a hurry.

Here, on the other hand, some poor devil will be standing in a

waterlogged field in his wellies, trying to make his ball-point write on

soggy paper – but it will get done, and will probably be the only

rainfall record the MO will get in this rural part of Aberdeenshire.



Ian Bingham,

Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.

80m asl.

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On the plus side there will be lots of reasonably accurate amateur AWS's

at or near to Shoeburyness, accessible via the web, and so data can still

be found, which wouldn't have been possible before.

Dave



wow.metoffice.gov.uk



Will

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I haven't used WOW before but I see it gives "rainfall rate/hr" rather than amount so not much good really.