> inches of rain? That sounds like "an amount" to Illinois...but not worthy of > exciting news. (We had 5 inches about two days before that. Enough to be > alert to rain getting ahead of storm sewers, etc. Chicago had some annoying > traffic congestion as underpasses flooded, etc.) Is West Freugh that much Hi Kristy, When I first moved from the UK to the USA I was quite surprised by the difference in the rain. Whereas here on the East Coast (Delaware) and most other places I've been in the US, when it rains it RAINS, just as you describe, the typical rainfall in most parts of the UK is little and often. Like, less than a tenth of an inch every day for two or three weeks. Often close to the same overall, but different pattern entirely. A few years ago I spent a vacation in the Falkland Islands, where the weather is much like Scotland, and couldn't think what it was that was different. It was the noise the rain made!! The rain came in on the wind and rattled on the windows, a sound I'd not heard in a long time. Here of course it comes straight down on the roof, whoosh. :-) And West Freugh is about 10 miles south of Stranraer, on the Irish Sea coast. My ggg grandmother was born there in 1772, so I feel a connection. It's been an RAF airfield since the 1940s. Crawford.