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cupra · December 23rd 12, 07:05 AM posted to uk.sci.weather

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Eskimo Will 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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Exactly - I'm on there :-)

Ditto

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