I wish it would rain

[Odsox]

I know, I know, never happy !
Last month I was complaining about too many wet days stopping me getting on with things, but it hasn't really rained since the end of July.
We've had drizzly spells and spattery spells, but no real rain, and the long range forecast is for high pressure dry weather.
My spring water supply has dried up as has all the streams locally and all the local beef farmers are muttering, having to cart water to their stock.
Never mind, I see that there are two, and possibly three hurricanes that are probably heading my way and the remnants tend to dump huge quantities of rain, so in a couple of weeks time I will probably be complaining ... I wish it would stop raining.

[Millymollymandy]

Hee hee this month I have had 33mm 12 days ago and yesterday 21mm so I am one extremely HAPPY BUNNY!!! Of course everyone on facebook absolutely hates me now. My grass is greening up every minute!

Sorry about your drought Tony. What was that about never having to water your veg?!! But I know the problem only too well, just glad that here thankfully the farmers should get a 2nd cut of hay this year as the 1st was dreadful as it was too dry too early and usually there are 2-3 cuts a season.

I totalled up we actually had a huge amount of rain this month but it's nearly all fallen in 1mm or 2 mm which is just nothing and barely fills up more than a trickle into the water butts and doesn't wet grass or plants at all.

[grahamhobbs]

Well on our allotments in London we had 12 weeks of no rain, imagine how dry the soil got. But for the last two it hasn't stopped including some torrential downpours with I think some 2" or 3" at a go.
Driving home yesterday evening it could have been November, it was cold, bucketing down with rain, there was low cloud swirling around the chimneys like a mist, and it was dark. I think my plants are thinking this it, we've had enough, this is winter, we are packing up.

[pelmetman]

Here in Lincolnshire it has been so dry all the verges were brown and our soil being clay had 3" gaps where it was all cracking.

Of course it all sorts itself out and now we are being inundated with torrential rain and wind. Yesterday it was so cold we lit the log burner. It really was like looking out on a winters night and its still August! Still the raspberries love the rain and are fruiting like mad.

Sue

[Green Aura]

Down worry folks - it's August Bank Holiday Weekend - bound to pour down at least one day!

[Millymollymandy]

Our forecast is for sun for the next 10 days, god I could do with a barbecue again!! August often is a miserable month and I remember in England, and also when I lived near Geneva, autumn usually seemed to start about the middle of August.

[Milims]

's just startd cucking it down here - with thunder and lightning - the works!

[Odsox]

Down worry folks - it's August Bank Holiday Weekend - bound to pour down at least one day!

That won't work Maggie, we had our August bank holiday on the 2nd August.
Mind you, I've decided to paint my house next week, that should do it.

[123sologne]

Well we just had enough rain in the last 72 hours to last us a good month, so I hope it goes your way and avoid us for a bit otherwise my poor tomatoes are going to rot....

[battybird]

It has finally rained for the last couple of days here on the tip of Kent...missed it before every time it was forcast! And I was whingeing about having to water everything Now I have had enough...can we have sun please, I want to pick the veg and the ground is all claggy! We have an outdoor festival to go to o Sunday so I guess it will be raining and windy then! Why can't we control the weather to rain at night, clear up then have a light breeze till lunchtime, then pleasantly warm for the rest of the day and evening??? Am I asking too much??? Of course the weather would have to follow me wherever i happened to go! I suppose then I would complain that its all too predictable!!
All we are doing is proving how human we are...never satisfied! I have to say I quite like the idea of lighting the fire...till I think about the logpile (or lack of it yet!)

[Thomzo]

I had a few friends round for a bbq on Saturday evening. Friends travelled less than 2 miles drove through floods. My garden was dry all evening. Just shows the microclimate that exists in my little patch of South-West England!

Apart from that we've had torrential downpours here. After about 3 months of no rain, (apart from the two days we tried to have Selfsufficientish picnics)!

Zoe

[Millymollymandy]

I do think some people have a different perspective of rain to us gardeners. Yesterday, for example, it rained about 4 times, yet managed to total just over 1mm which is absolutely nothing. Now some would say 'it was raining all day ' but for me, that isn't rain at all and is a waste of good cloud! (To put mm into perspective, I need 25mm of rain off my barn roof to fill one IBC!!!).

Of course in the winter I turn into one of those 'it was raining all day ' people, cos the ground will be damp, everything will be dormant and we won't need to water anything anyway.

[Millymollymandy]

All we are doing is proving how human we are...never satisfied! I have to say I quite like the idea of lighting the fire...till I think about the logpile (or lack of it yet!)

We've just had a log delivery and you dont realise how unfit you are till you start shifting and stacking 50cm logs..... It did make me start thinking of autumn though as there was a nice damp smell to the ground and I was thinking of log fire smoke, chestnuts and piles of leaves everywhere!!! I don't want that yet!

[Odsox]

the ground is all claggy!

Now that's an expression I haven't heard since moving from Kent.
You will have me talking about "hopping" weather and getting homesick.

[battybird]

Hey, Odsox...didnt realise it was a kentish saying!! Must have got it from my OH as he is born and bred here...(why do we say it that way round???surely you are bred then born??? )