GraemeT wrote:
Happy New Year from North Bayswater Weather
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Graeme,
Interesting to compare your readings with mine
http://mtb-images.dyndns.org:1088/history/yearly.php?year=2011 (we are probably about 3-4 km apart).
Just about all records match to the day - pressure - both low and high - although you were a little lower than mine. Temperatures about the same for max (reading and date) - low though was colder here - 1.6 but on the same day.
Rain is an interesting one - the neighbour across the road also runs his own weather station and the day you recorded the 119 mm, I recorded 122 and over the road 108 mm! Because I also report rain for Melbourne Water I talked to them about this discrepency and, based on other reports they received for that day, they were able to work out the path of the heaviest rainfall which happened to literally draw a line between my rain gauge and the one over the road (to the east and about 45 metres away)! and then a similar lower figure to another station located to the west about 300 metres away - so the extremely heavy rain that day (it peaked at 96 mm per hour for a 3 minute period just before 8pm) was virtually centred over the group of houses where I live).
You also ended up with 202mm of rain MORE than we received here (which btw was our second highest total since 2000 (1126 in 2008) and comparable to 1989/1990 (1125 and 1149 respectively).
Stephen
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