[Dave K]

Thanks Ian. Well with high pressure slap bang over the UK there was very little rain about yesterday - not a sinlge location reached 1.0mm though plenty of places recorded 0.4mm or 0.2mm. So under the new rule there are no points awarded for Day 15.

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Repost of the "Competition" rules

1) Data is taken solely from Synoptic Stations from Ogimet online rankings for 06z - 06z simply because it is an handy resource. Thus no Climate Reporting stations, sorry;
2) For reason above the highest readings on the daily Met Office lists may differ greatly or not appear on here;
3) All elevations are considered, even mountain stations;
4) "Britain" = the whole UK of course, with Crown Dependencies Isle of Man and Channel Islands stations also included for interest;
5) Points will be awarded for the 10 highest amounts each day ( 06z - 06z ): 10 for wettest, then 9, then 8, down to 1 point for 10th;
6) At least one MetO synoptic station must equal or exceed 1.0mm in the 24 hours, or no points are awarded for the day;
7) Locations with equal amounts on a day will share a ratio of the points as long as the share is 0.1 or more;
8) In ongoing rankings, places with equal points will be ranked secondly by number of appearances in daily rankings, thirdly by highest amount on any one day.

This post has been edited by Big Dave's Gusset: 16 September 2011 - 08:22

[Dave K]

Back to more normal rainfall and Walney Island gets its third top spot so far, a possible dark horse? A little more ground made up on Capel Curig by Tulloch Bridge. There are now 67 locations that have appeared in the scoring since the start.

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[Dave K]

Day 17 and we have a first time top spot for Crosby while Capel Curig has another "good" day to open up the gap over second place again. Walney Island also makes further inroads inside the Top 10.

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Crosby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. Historically part of Lancashire it is situated north of Bootle, south of Southport, Formby and west of Netherton.

The town has Viking roots in common with the other -by suffixed settlements of Formby to the north and Kirkby to the east. Crosby was known as Krossabyr in Old Norse, meaning "village with the cross". The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Crosebi, and by the year 1212 had become Crosseby.

The opening of the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway in 1848 resulted in the growth of Crosby as suburb of Liverpool.

Crosby Beach is home to Anthony Gormley's art installation Another Place. The sea views were described in the 19th Century by the First Lord of the Admiralty as second only to the Bay of Naples. Crosby's environs include several miles of beach, a marina, a number of parks and a large area of woodland known as Ince Woods. Crosby is home to a Carnegie Library built with donations from the American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Distinctive buildings in Crosby Village include Crown Buildings and the three pubs, The Crow's Nest, Yates's now known as the George again, and The Village.

Crosby is served by the railway stations of Hall Road, Blundellsands and Crosby, and Waterloo, on the Northern Line of the region's commuter rail network, Merseyrail. Trains run between Southport and Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central.

Marine AFC (Association football) and Waterloo RUFC (rugby union) are both based in the area. Crosby is also home to Crosby Swimming Club, a member of the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA).

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[Dave K]

Day 18, highest rainfall totals fairly spread around the mainland of GB, no impact on the Top 10 and the first placed Capel Curig adds just a half-point to its lead.

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Yeovilton is a small village and a civil parish located on the north bank of the River Yeo in Somerset, in close proximity to the Fosse Way, the Roman Road linking Exeter in the South West to Lincoln in the East Midlands; however, Yeovilton is best known for its association with the Fleet Air Arm Museum and as the home of the Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton, (HMS Heron). Yeovilton is located in Somerset near the A303 and A37. The nearest populated areas include Ilchester to the west and Limington to the south. The village has a population of approximately 670.

A manor known to the Saxons as Geviltone was in existence at the time of the Norman Conquest, and between 899 and 925 an estate in Yeovilton was granted by King Edward. Between 955 and 959 King Eadwig gave a further holding of five hides to Brihtric. Coincidentally Gevil was the early name for Yeovil, which is located a short distance from Yeovilton, suggesting that the manorial holdings of Geviltone may have been extensive. Yeovilton has remained a small parish with only a few hamlets throughout the ages and the village of Yeovilton only achieved large recognition when it became a base of operation for the RNAS during World War II. With the passage of time RNAS Yeovilton became one of the busiest military air stations in Europe, and it follows that the subsequent Fleet Air Museum located in Yeovilton was destined to become the second largest naval aviation museum in the world.

The Church of Saint Bartholomew, a Grade II* listed building dating from early medieval times was originally a Saxon church that was largely restored on its original foundations during the 1400's. By the 1900's the church fell into great disrepair and disuse, until the advent of World War II when "St. Bart's" became associated with the RNAS. After the war, following years of appeals to restore the church, the Ministry of Defence purchased the church, which is now run by a Board of Trustees that is not affiliated with any one religious sect.



The MetO weather station is located within the airfield runway area.

[hide]Yeovilton climate: Average maximum and minimum temperatures, and average rainfall recorded between 1971 and 2000 by the Met Office. Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Average max. temperature °C (°F) 8.1 (46.6) 8.3 (46.9) 10.6 (51.1) 12.9 (55.2) 16.5 (61.7) 19.3 (66.7) 21.7 (71.1) 21.5 (70.7) 18.6 (65.5) 14.8 (58.6) 11.1 (52.0) 9.0 (48.2) 14.4 (57.9) Average min. temperature °C (°F) 1.4 (34.5) 1.3 (34.3) 2.7 (36.9) 3.7 (38.7) 6.8 (44.2) 9.7 (49.5) 11.9 (53.4) 11.7 (53.1) 9.6 (49.3) 6.9 (44.4) 3.6 (38.5) 2.4 (36.3) 6.0 (42.8) Rainfall mm(inches) 72.0 (2.84) 55.6 (2.19) 56.6 (2.23) 47.3 (1.86) 48.9 (1.93) 57.2 (2.25) 48.9 (1.93) 56.6 (2.23) 64.5 (2.54) 67.9 (2.67) 65.8 (2.59) 83.3 (3.28) 724.5 (28.52) Source: Met Office

[Ian Williams]

I am totally convinced that there is something wrong with the rain gauge at Plymouth it rained pretty much on and off with some really heavy showers yesterday and in the evening and overnight, yet it comes back with Trace! This month i have recorded over 40 mm of rain yet at the Mountbatten site it reads a tadge over 20mm so over half less. If we look at Ogimet symbols it shows all the rain too.


http://www.ogimet.co...&min=0&ndays=30



03827: Plymouth (United Kingdom)

Latitude: 50-21N Longitude: 004-07W Altitude: 50 m.

Daily summary at 06:00 UTC. (05:43 mean solar time)
Time interval: 30 days before 2011/09/19

Date	Temperature ©			Hr. Avg (%)	Wind (km/h)			Pres. s.lev (Hp)	Prec. (mm)	Vis Km	Daily weather summary
	Max	Min	Avg		Dir.	Int.	Gust
09/19	16.3	12.3	13.8	82.6	WNW	24.6	63.0	1010.0	Tr	15.7
09/18	16.6	10.5	12.7	82.9	W	23.9	51.9	1007.0	Tr	15.9

This post has been edited by Ian Williams: 19 September 2011 - 12:21

[Dave K]

Ian Williams, on 19 September 2011 - 12:19, said:

I am totally convinced that there is something wrong with the rain gauge at Plymouth it rained pretty much on and off with some really heavy showers yesterday and in the evening and overnight, yet it comes back with Trace! This month i have recorded over 40 mm of rain yet at the Mountbatten site it reads a tadge over 20mm so over half less. If we look at Ogimet symbols it shows all the rain too.


http://www.ogimet.co...&min=0&ndays=30

What's it like today? It's giving 2.0mm for Plymouth since midnight which must be almost all since 06z, does that sound right?

[Ian Williams]

Big Dave, on 19 September 2011 - 12:28, said:

What's it like today? It's giving 2.0mm for Plymouth since midnight which must be almost all since 06z, does that sound right?

Drizzle through the night and all morning until around 1300BST

[Ian Williams]

The 2 mm from midnight would be about right though, alot of it was mizzle. Yesterdays however isnt there were lots of really heavy blustery showers that came down so hard that it sounded like hail on the windows here at work

[Dave K]

Day 19: Every time the chasing pack make some ground on Capel Curig it just manages to pull away again and leave them jockeying for position in its wake. Today Spadeadam has its first 10 pointer.

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The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment, near Carlisle, was opened in the late 1950s as a test area for the British Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). The research program was split between Rolls Royce and Dehavilland (later Hawker Siddley). Dehavilland were responsible for the airframe and Rolls Royce for the RZ 2 rocket engines.The first rocket firing took place in August 1959, but by this time the Fixed Site Ballistic Missile (FSBM) was being phased out. The British program was cancelled in 1958 after the deployment of American THOR missile sites in eastern England.

Following cancellation as a weapons programme it continued under the auspices of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), Blue Streak becoming the first stage of Europa I launcher with French and German second and third stages.

Many of the buildings were demolished in the years following the project's end but the remaining buildings, such as the rocket plinths at Greymare Hill, engine test plinths at Prior Lancy and the control bunkers at both sites may be scheduled as historic monuments by the Royal Commission for Historic Monuments in England.

Spread all around the 900 acres of military base are remnants from previous conflicts. These are used as realistic decoys and to make the area appear to be a live base from the air.

Although the Spadeadam site is in regular use, visits by community groups, clubs and other organisations to the historic areas of the site are possible although restricted, as this is an active training area. Public visits are usually only permitted in the evening and on a handful of dates each year.

English Heritage has recently identified the remains at Spadeadam as being of national importance and has recommended that they are protected as a Scheduled Monument.

The coming of this large facility resulted in a huge inflow of specialized workers and the brunt of this immigration was borne by the small market town of Brampton. Founded in the 7th century, the first market charter was granted in 1252 by Henry III2. In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie lived in the town and recieved the keys to Carlisle upon it's surrender. The following year six of the Prince's supporters were hanged in the town after Charlie fled the city 3. The road from Carlisle to Newcastle (1758) and the railway between the same two cities (1836) both contributed to the prosperity of the town which is purported to have had as many as 45 pubs for a population of 3000 in the 1800's. The Blue Streak high-tech invasion put a strain on the small town, particularly on the schools, as most of the immigrants were young professionals with growing families.




Spadeadam Forest

[Dave K]

Day 20: Mainly South Wales and SW England in the scoring today. Capel Curig is not in the points but only Skye/Lusa makes up any ground near the top and moves back up to 2nd place overall.

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[Ian Williams]

I see Plymouth managed to scrape through into the top 10. There was quite a bit of surface flooding in and around Plymouth`s roads last night. Plymouth University recorded 13.2mm to midnight which is near the town centre, most of this fell in around 3 hrs

[Dave K]

Day 21: Heaviest rainfall evaded the synoptic stations again but with Capel Curig again absent from the scoring the pack make up some ground again with some more changes of position in the Top 10. Skye/Lusa gets its third daily top placing.

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[Dave K]

Day 22: A wet week for Skye/Lusa which claims another 10 points today and with Capel Curig once more absent from scoring there is now a mere 0.5 points separating first from second. Loch Glascarnoch slips into 4th place behind Tulloch Bridge and ahead of Shap.

It looks like Western Scotland will continue to get the highest rainfall totals in the next couple of days, so we may expect a change at the top...

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[Dave K]

Day 23: Poor old Scotland continues to get the rain and an awful week to be in Skye as it tops the scoring yet again - and Capel Curig loses its place at the top of the table for the first time in over a fortnight, with some more shuffling around in the Top 10.

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This post has been edited by Big Dave's Gusset: 24 September 2011 - 09:33

[Dave K]

Here are highest total amounts in mm over 100 so far, bear in mind this only includes totals for days when the locations have been in the Top 10, so the real amounts for the month so far will be higher.

PlaceName	Total mm
Capel Curig	271.8
Skye/Lusa	205.0
Tulloch Bridge	188.2
Shap	165.4
Eskdalemuir	147.4
Loch Glascarnoch	127.4
Walney Island	110.6

[Dave K]

Day 24: Rather lower rainfall totals generally in Western Scotland and today it's Stornoway that brings home the 10 points and Skye/Lusa jsut adds a little to its overall lead.

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Stornoway (Scottish Gaelic: Steòrnabhagh) is a burgh on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
The town's population is around 9,000, making it the largest settlement in the Western Isles (with a third of the population) and the third largest town in the Scottish Highlands after Inverness and Fort William. The civil parish of Stornoway, including various nearby villages, has a population of approximately 12,000. Stornoway is an important port and the major town and administrative centre of the Outer Hebrides. It is home to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (the Western Isles Council) and a variety of educational, sporting and media establishments. Observance of the Christian Sabbath (Sunday) is a prominent and sometimes controversial aspect of the town's culture.

Stornoway was originally a Viking settlement and developed around its well sheltered natural harbour. Reflecting this, the name Stornoway itself is derived from 'Stjórnavágr', an Old Norse word for 'steering bay'. Medieval development of the town was spurred by the construction of the original castle in the High Middle Ages by the Nicolson (or MacNicol) family, themselves of Viking descent. Infighting between rival clans continued throughout the Late Middle Ages and resisted an attempt by the then King of Scotland James VI to colonise Lewis in 1597.

The castle was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's forces in the aftermath of his Scottish campaign in the mid 17th century[citation needed], and the ownership of Stornoway - and by extension, Lewis - passed from the MacKenzies of Kintail through the Seaforth family and Sir James Matheson (and his descendants) to William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme. Lord Leverhulme finally gifted the town's parish to the Stornoway Trust, whose ownership remains to this day.


Deserted town centre on a Sunday



The MetO synoptic station is located in the grounds of the airport.

Climate data for Stornoway
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	6.7 (44.1)	6.8 (44.2)	7.9 (46.2)	9.6 (49.3)	12.1 (53.8)	14.4 (57.9)	15.5 (59.9)	15.7 (60.3)	13.9 (57)	11.9 (53.4)	8.6 (47.5)	7.4 (45.3)	10.88 (51.58)
Average low °C (°F)	1.7 (35.1)	1.4 (34.5)	2.3 (36.1)	3.3 (37.9)	5.9 (42.6)	8.3 (46.9)	9.9 (49.8)	9.8 (49.6)	8.4 (47.1)	6.4 (43.5)	3.1 (37.6)	2.3 (36.1)	5.23 (41.42)
Rainfall mm (inches)	122 (4.8)	85 (3.35)	105 (4.13)	65 (2.56)	61 (2.4)	63 (2.48)	73 (2.87)	84 (3.31)	116 (4.57)	138 (5.43)	133 (5.24)	128 (5.04)	1,173 (46.18)
Source: www.worldweather.com

[rosskesava]

I'm probably asking this question in the wrong part of the forum but is there any way to look at the 'totals for the day' and the 'top 10 locations' side by side as by the time I've looked at the second chart, I've completely forgotten the first. Thanks.

[Dave K]

rosskesava, on 25 September 2011 - 21:49, said:

I'm probably asking this question in the wrong part of the forum but is there any way to look at the 'totals for the day' and the 'top 10 locations' side by side as by the time I've looked at the second chart, I've completely forgotten the first. Thanks.

Not that I know of, seems to be one of the negatives since the upgrade about uploading images that you can open many but only view one at a time. Perhaps I'll just combine those two images into one from now on to make it easier.

This post has been edited by Big Dave's Gusset: 26 September 2011 - 08:47

[Dave K]

Day 25: Capel Curig back in the scoring, but the top 6 positions overall remain unchanged. Aultbea wins the 10 points for the second time. After just short of 4 weeks patterns starting to emerge now with the top 5 showing consistency of around 50% appearences in the scoring so far.

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This post has been edited by Big Dave's Gusset: 26 September 2011 - 09:06

[Foxy2]

I'm surprised nowhere in the SW of the UK registered last night. Some quite heavy rainall here but from radar it was localised along the spine of the peninsula. The 13.7mm in the Tiverton area would have given it 8th place (displacing Stornaway) and another 3 points for England!

Andy