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or with convection. In summer, convection, caused by the sun heating the land surface more than the sea, sometimes forms rain clouds and at that time of year a large proportion of the rainfall comes from showers and thunderstorms. Annual precipitation varies from 800 mm in the east of the park to over 2000 mm at The Chains. However, in the 24 hours of 16 August 1952, more than 225 mm of rain fell at The Chains. This rainfall, which followed an exceptionally wet summer,

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