Here are last week’s readings:
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Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb am |
Pressure in Mb pm |
Temperature in ºC |
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|
Max |
Min |
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Sun 26th |
0.0 |
1018.3 |
1014.7 |
12.9 |
7.8 |
|
Mon 27th |
0.4 |
1012.6 |
1013.3 |
12.5 |
5.0 |
|
Tue 28th |
0.0 |
1014.5 |
1016.1 |
13.9 |
11.3 |
|
Wed29th |
9.4 |
1013.5 |
1014.3 |
13.9 |
12.5 |
|
Thu 30th |
3.1 |
1015.0 |
1013.4 |
15.2 |
3.2 |
|
Fri 1st |
30.6 |
1005.0 |
999.8 |
13.5 |
9.5 |
|
Sat 2nd |
0.4 |
1005.4 |
1004.9 |
14.0 |
4.9 |
|
Total |
43.9 |
|
Average |
13.7 |
7.7 |
Our weatherman on the hill predicts:
A drier week to come with no repeat of Friday’s 40mm; the wettest day since September 2008 when Friday 5th saw 32mm and Saturday 6th saw 40mm. The weekend of the floods.
PARWICH.ORG 
As a 2008 flood victim, I note with interest the Parwich rainfall statistics. This current fall of heavy rain brings back unpleasant memories!
To my way of thinking, the 2008 flooding was a consequence of the ground being soaked during the previous week to the flood and then a downpour with nowhere to go. Looking back on the 2008 rainfall data shows a wet week followed by heavy rain on Friday (32mm) and heavy rain Saturday (40mm). The floods occured early Saturday morning so I guess that most of the Saturday’s 40mm were in the early hours and thus very intense. The cumulative rainfall for that week tots up to 97mm.
I’ve totted up the rainfall for this week and got 43.9mm and thus told myself not to panic. I’ve assumed that Friday’s rainfall is 30.6mm, not the 40mm quoted in the text.
Is it possible for ‘The Weatherman’ to keep a rolling weekly total of rainfall and then notify us all when it reaches say 50mm? Thus we could prepare our lifeboats in case the next day yields a damaging 40mm rainfall.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on the subject? I’m sure I’m not the only home owner with one eye on the clouds!
Dave
Dave R.
The 40mm figure refers to 2008 not 2010. Lifeboats won’t do, get some chest high fishing waders.
For those interested go to the Met Office site
and open the Invent pages. Marvellous graphics showing previous and forecast rainfall in 3 hour increments, as well as cloud cover and pressure.
The rainfall graphics gives enough time to get wellies on and the kids dinghy blown up