[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

Light rain all morning giving a total of 2.3mm of rainfall since 09Z
today, making that the wettest day since 2.3mm on 28th August. Very
blustery now but the rain has stopped and the sun has come out.

Monthly total rainfall now stands at 3.0mm.

Jonathan
Canterbury
http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/

[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:34:41 +0100, Jonathan Stott
wrote:

Monthly total rainfall now stands at 3.0mm.

Here, 184.8mm!

I almost wish that we were back in the south.

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[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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Light rain all morning giving a total of 2.3mm of rainfall since 09Z
today, making that the wettest day since 2.3mm on 28th August. Very
blustery now but the rain has stopped and the sun has come out.

Monthly total rainfall now stands at 3.0mm.

Jonathan
Canterbury
http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
Amazed you didn't get more than that looking at the radar! 19mm not that far
to your North. Missed the second wave though.

Dave, S.Essex

[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
...
Light rain all morning giving a total of 2.3mm of rainfall since 09Z
today, making that the wettest day since 2.3mm on 28th August. Very
blustery now but the rain has stopped and the sun has come out.

Monthly total rainfall now stands at 3.0mm.

Jonathan
Canterbury
http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/

2.3mm !!!
That's barely drizzle :-)

But I guess it is all relative.

Will.
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[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:34:41 +0100, Jonathan Stott
wrote:

Monthly total rainfall now stands at 3.0mm.

Here, 184.8mm!

I almost wish that we were back in the south.


He he you're having Dartmoor weather Alan! You can send it back here if you like
because I'm beginning to miss it now and the skin between my toes is flaking
away :-)

Very dry here with just 34 mm so far this month.

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

Dave.C wrote:

Amazed you didn't get more than that looking at the radar! 19mm not that far
to your North. Missed the second wave though.

Yes, I was surprised too. But the rain was indeed very light and barely
got me wet on the 30-minute walk to work. I was surprised that I
measured so much!

Jonathan
Canterbury

[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

Will Hand wrote:

2.3mm !!!
That's barely drizzle :-)

But I guess it is all relative.

It certainly had people running for their brollies! Comments along the
lines of "what is this wet stuff falling from the sky" were also fairly
common :-)

Jonathan
Canterbury

[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

Very dry here with just 34 mm so far this month.

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Pathetic, 41mm here for September. ;-)

Dave, on the wettest day since August 2005.

[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:34:41 +0100, Jonathan Stott
wrote:

Light rain all morning giving a total of 2.3mm of rainfall since 09Z
today, making that the wettest day since 2.3mm on 28th August. Very
blustery now but the rain has stopped and the sun has come out.

Monthly total rainfall now stands at 3.0mm.


I always thought Canterbury and the extreme SE got clobbered by
showers running along the Channel and clipping Kent. How do you
normally compare with Dover 'down the road'?
R

[WR] wettest day for 26 days, Canterbury
 

Robin Nicholson wrote:

I always thought Canterbury and the extreme SE got clobbered by
showers running along the Channel and clipping Kent. How do you
normally compare with Dover 'down the road'?

Not even so far away as Dover, but in Boughton (about 6 miles away as
the crow flies) there seems to be a lot more rain than here. I have
remarked before about how so many heavy storms seem to pass just to the
west of here - on several occasions it's been bone dry here but a walk
of a mile or so into town often shows signs of heavy rain. The same
seems to apply to the far south-east of Kent - a number of times I have
seen radar images which show moderate or heavy rain just around the
coast of Kent (Dover/Folkestone area) but absolutely nothing here.

Perhaps we are just (un)lucky, but I suspect it is more a case of
coincidence. I have checked to make sure that my rain gauge is at least
roughly accurate and I'm fairly sure that my exposure (although not
great) isn't the cause seeing as I've witnessed at first hand the
extreme local differences in rainfall.

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