A Case Study In Rain: Yeovilton (part 4)
My locality floods quite easily, being the Somerset Levels. After persistent rain and extensive flooding I take a concerned look at rainfall data held at Yeovilton.
In part 3 I ended my article by saying:
The big result here is lack of evidence that suggests intensity of rainfall, as approximated by a 12-hour morning and evening rate, has been a driver for the extensive flooding of 2012/13/14. Most curious indeed but what I ought to do next is crunch the hourly data from 1988 – 2022 to obtain true hourly rates of pr…