So the bold Nelms made the claim that they, Dundee Spam Email FC, had 12 mm of rain the night before the game when 6 mm was expected. From world weather online for Dundee there was only 3.1mm of rain for the 36 hour period up to the 12 noon kickoff!
Given he was expecting 6mm of rain, this probably meant he didn't feel the need to inform our club that the game was in doubt, given if the 6mm fell as he expected it would - then the game would be on.
So he felt confident our first team squad could turn up and hang around his wee tinpot stadium in the cold, and wait for the referees to go through the motions.
It got me thinking today - how did he know how much rain fell overnight? Where is it actually measured ? Did he have a measuring jug out on the pitch? - this is not my specialist subject (neither do I think it's his), so I've had a Google.
Well according to world weather online and giving him the benefit of the doubt and a large window of analysis, from midnight Saturday to midday Sunday there was 3.1mm of rain recorded for Dundee which is nearly 50% of the total 6mm he expected Saturday night, and only 25.8% of his reported 12 mm rainfall.
Furthermore, if 12 mm really did fall overnight (and we have no measure of this) this would amount to 1.6 % of Dundee's total rainfall for an average year (716mm), in a 12 hour window (again generous time period). Put into context if everything was averaged out Dundee could expect .93mm rainfall as an average over 12 hours, so if we take Nelms' measure of this, 12 mm would equate to 770% increase in rainfall compared to an average Dundee night (clearly March is a better weather month than Oct- Feb for instance).
Anyway, I think you are all getting where I am coming from and would be great if someone better with words than me could put all this into a summary.
Given he was expecting 6mm of rain, this probably meant he didn't feel the need to inform our club that the game was in doubt, given if the 6mm fell as he expected it would - then the game would be on.
So he felt confident our first team squad could turn up and hang around his wee tinpot stadium in the cold, and wait for the referees to go through the motions.
It got me thinking today - how did he know how much rain fell overnight? Where is it actually measured ? Did he have a measuring jug out on the pitch? - this is not my specialist subject (neither do I think it's his), so I've had a Google.
Well according to world weather online and giving him the benefit of the doubt and a large window of analysis, from midnight Saturday to midday Sunday there was 3.1mm of rain recorded for Dundee which is nearly 50% of the total 6mm he expected Saturday night, and only 25.8% of his reported 12 mm rainfall.
Furthermore, if 12 mm really did fall overnight (and we have no measure of this) this would amount to 1.6 % of Dundee's total rainfall for an average year (716mm), in a 12 hour window (again generous time period). Put into context if everything was averaged out Dundee could expect .93mm rainfall as an average over 12 hours, so if we take Nelms' measure of this, 12 mm would equate to 770% increase in rainfall compared to an average Dundee night (clearly March is a better weather month than Oct- Feb for instance).
Anyway, I think you are all getting where I am coming from and would be great if someone better with words than me could put all this into a summary.
Dundee, Dundee City, GB Historical Weather Almanac
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