May be I should have noted it as a 'minor' event, however I do believe it to be an event of note. 88mm in 24 hours is a lot of rain in this part of the world. Although I don't have records of rolling 24 hour periods, our wettest calender day since my records began was 61mm and that was 5 years ago. So a day of 56mm followed by a morning of 32mm was indeed wet. Anyway, what effect did all this rain have on my local river - by chance I had taken the first picture the day before the rain as a record of how low the water was. The second picture was a few hours after the rain had stopped, the water was still rising, but didn't rise much further. It never rises much at this point as it flows quite fast. For a bit of fun I have attempted to put some figures on the event. If the entire catchment area of this river had also had 88mm of rain, then that would have added up to a 100 million tons. Difficult to put a figure on the river, 42 meters wide according to google earth, it had risen by 2 mters and I guess was mowing at 12mph ,...... 450 tons per second