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Heavy downpours coming

FireFire Posts: 19,096
in Problem solving
The forecast tells of heavy localised downpours over the next few weeks.  So best to tie in your plants vulnerable to breakage, make sure your rain gardens channels are clear, water butts at the ready. It looks like the fixed high pressure weather pattern is changing. Good news for hosepipe bans I would imagine and grass. But with the baked earth, flooding might be bad.


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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I can't imagine it ever raining again at the moment!
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Isn't that just for the west of England and Wales .
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited July 2018
    The linked Met video says much of southern England too, potentially. It is localised, but where it falls it seems that it will fall hard.

  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    It might not reach me, but we could do with a few night time showers. Do you think that is wishful thinking or tempting fate.😉
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Nothing here for the south west, they show it, then next time I look it’s gone😢

    they are showing some for the 19th July. But a 30% chance isnt much! They’ve been showing it like this for weeks. At least I have some water in the tap today, lovely man came round this morning and turned the pump on.  He said to put the hose on the garden, there’s no shortage down here. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Similar here - heavy storms forecast for Sunday evening just as our visitors arrive but then moved to early Monday morning with showers for the next 3 days.  Great timing!   Now it's changed to localised thunder and co early Sunday morning and a shower on Tuesday...........

    Won't be holding my breath then.  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They haven’t got a bl***y clue! 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I wouldn't mind but I selected the agricultural option for my forecast and it's no better than t'other.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    *rain dancing intensifies
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    According to one forecast, the probability of rain for me is about 50%, so I might as well toss a coin!
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