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Originally posted by birdman29: ↑

MARCH 11, 2023
tags:extreme rain,extreme rainfall,Met Office

By Paul Homewood

FLOODS & STORMS Floods in London - Aug. 1937 -

https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/167832/
The film mentions a month’s worth of rain in an hour, the sort of thing we are now led to believe used to be unheard of.
And the Met Office Weather Summary for that month notes that 2.14in fell on the 13th at Kew.

https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/IO_1068a685-5054-48e2-a42d-fe07cbd12677/

But as British Rainfall pointed out, all of that rain fell in the space of an hour or two:

https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/IO_19fdf911-a0dc-484e-a699-91eea3821938/

And it was not just London, as Liverpool and much of Scotland suffered badly from flooding the following day:

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