Dear Authors,

after receiving four independent reviews, they all propose publication of the paper and ask for minor revisions only. Please, revise your manuscript by incorporating your proposed changes from your replies to the reviewers.

Please, explain into detail the availability of data (such as upon request), as this seems to be the major plus of the paper for a wide audience that there is a set of data available to many researchers not familiar with the data set in Italy and how to get the data.

Some supplementary material on the spatial variability of rainfall in Italy (maps) will also be more than welcome.

Prepare a revised manuscript with visible changes. The revised version will be reviewed by the editor only.

If 30 days is not enough for the revision, please, ask for the extension,

sincerely yours,

Matjaž Mikoš
Handling Editor

Dear Authors,

the paper can be accepted for publication subject to a few minor technical corrections as follows:

Page 2, line 17: (PRIN 2005) does not appear in the list of references
Please, capitalize the word "Figure" when used in the text, e.g. Page 3, line 2 & Page 5, line 12 & Page 7, lines 8, 21, 25, 28, and 31 & Page 8, lines 8, 18 & Page 10, line 4.
Page 9, line 1 & 4 - it would be better to use "Figure 4f" instead of "Panel (f)", and "Figure 4g and 4h" instead of "panels (g) and (h)".
Page 10, line 17 - use "Figure 5c" rather than "Panel (c)".
Page 11, lines 17 & 22: capitalize "Table 1".

Thank you for choosing HESS to publish your research results.

Sincerely Yours,

Matjaž Mikoš
Handling Editor