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  • Sam80Sam80 Posts: 40
    @ForTheBees and @Fire - thank you both for the links.  Really interesting seeing how everyone is finding it, poor farmers!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2019
    April's situ report will be published sometime around 15th of May. You can get data on how dry April has been in your catchment area.

    Groundwater and riverflow in East Anglia look normal for the time of year except along the coast, which is notably low.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I didn't think we had had much rain here, until I looked at my water butt. While building the new veg bed had to move the butt which ment using the water in it. This happened beginning of April. In a month the butt has refilled by 3/4, much more than I expected. Do you get much condensation on misty / foggy days, as the rain has been light. Mind you as I write the heavens have opened twice. Best rain in weeks.
  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    Surprise, suprise, the forecast for rain ha been halved to 2mm. 

    On the upside, Tue/Wed is now forecast to deliver 12mm.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    The problem round here seems to be that when it does rain it absolutely P's down and runs off rather than soaking in.  I'm still trying to get one border fully weeded but there are sections where it's still nearly impossible to get a fork in, and our ground is normally pretty good.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Lyn said:
    Heard on the radio the other day that there will be no shortage of water in Cornwall for at least 25 years, after that impossible to predict.
    raining here again this morning. 
    Still no rain here m'lovely.
    Devon.
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    We had about an hour of really heavy rain which was great every thing smell fresh. The sun came out but it looks like more rain on it's way :)
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Wow - we just had some rain! - big fat drops! 

    Lasted 90 seconds....
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    @ForTheBees Thank you, finally a map including Wales. Looks like we've had actually a wetter year so far than 2018 and 2017.
    I would say we had very wet March, then 2 or 3 dry weeks in April and now it has been raining for more than a week.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    it's raining hard here now, right after I watered some plants- of course! Perhaps you should all do a rain dance - naked on the 4th!  
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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