Lashing wind and rain from Storm Ciara squall line

This gave over 5mm in less than 5 minutes - on top of 20mm since midnight however that was the end of the serious rain. There had been a gust to 70mph shortly after midnight and this squall peaked at about 57mph

New VP2 ISS

My VP2 was bought used from ebay about 2012 and so must be at least 10 years old - the whole unit is showing it's age with grey sun damaged plastics and lichen growth hard to keep at bay.

Only the rain gauge is original so it's a bit like the warehouse man's broom in a way!
Even the main board was replaced about 5 years ago.

I noticed the main unit without console is not unduly expensive especially since VAT an be reclaimed as the unit is invaluable for the farm at times.
The replaced sensors can be kept as spares indeed the whole thing could be swapped back if an issue arises.

As noted in post below I was taken aback that the new one reads 0.5C lower which seems to be because the T/H sensor replaced last October should have had an offset applied due to revised design.
Before about 25th October readings were correct except for humidity which was why it was replaced.

VP2 Temperature offset not applied

It has come to light that the sensor I replaced late October 2019 requires a -0.5C offset due to different design - this is significant and if corrected there would have been more air frosts recorded for example.
Here's the info:
https://www.manula.com/manuals/pws/davis-kb/1/en/topic/temperature-humidity-general

The previous one was installed about 2014 and was reading correctly.
the newer design is reckoned to be more accurate.
Luckily that's only two months with *wrong* readings and there's no easy way to correct that so will let it go.