Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => The Knowledge => OT Knowledge => Topic started by: Little Jim on 10 April, 2024, 12:45:53 pm
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Is there an online record of rainfall data?
Specifically I am trying to find the rainfall data for the 28th March at Virginia Water near Staines.
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There are two sites that I use - it's just a case of taking pot luck to see if anyone has a weather station there.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ISOUTH1318/graph/2023-02-1/2023-02-1/monthly
That's mine, in Southend. There's a map on the website somewhere.
https://www.pwsweather.com/station/pws/egham
That's not that far away...
Be aware, though, that there are quite a few people who unthinkingly record what their automatic rain gauge says when it's quite inaccurate.
Edit: it's very close to Heathrow. Doesn't the airport publish daily weather records? I'm damned sure they would be very accurate.
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Thank you for the reply and I will have a look at those two sites. You are right about Heathrow, I never thought of that :facepalm:, they must know to the nearest millimetre how much falls every hour. But whether they publish it remains to be seen, so this afternoon's quest...
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https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@7284876/historic
That looks useful.
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Many thanks for your trouble Wow, that has resolved the problem!
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Thank you for the reply and I will have a look at those two sites. You are right about Heathrow, I never thought of that :facepalm:, they must know to the nearest millimetre how much falls every hour. But whether they publish it remains to be seen, so this afternoon's quest...
I think the UK Met Office publishes stats for Heathrow.