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No rain for 3 weeks....
BenDover
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I've had no rain for 3 weeks. Water butts are already empty as have had to fill up the garden pond and water my pots and containers. I've also just lost a bamboo in a large container because I wasn't paying much attention to it being so early in the Spring and the container is as dry as a bone. Normally I wouldn't have to water it until the end of May/June. I've just been on to the BBC Weather and its long-range forecast for the next two weeks shows no rain up to 25th April. What happened to the April showers?
Is it me or is anybody thinking the lack of aircraft movements is resulting in less cloud seeding caused by pollution? The amount of blue clear sky in April seems unprecedented. Have we any weather experts out there who can offer some comment.
I do remember after 9/11 when no planes flew in America for 3 days that they reckoned the average daytime temperature rose by around 1.7C. Just wondering if the lack of flights is having an impact on the weather again.
Is it me or is anybody thinking the lack of aircraft movements is resulting in less cloud seeding caused by pollution? The amount of blue clear sky in April seems unprecedented. Have we any weather experts out there who can offer some comment.
I do remember after 9/11 when no planes flew in America for 3 days that they reckoned the average daytime temperature rose by around 1.7C. Just wondering if the lack of flights is having an impact on the weather again.
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It is an interesting theory and I imagine it would have some impact, but would be interested to hear what others think.
I keep a keen eye on the forecast, and fair to say that for the south east, just about all our 'weather' has been coming from the east or north east whilst we've had no rain.
Our wet weather usually arrives from the south west and there's no sign of that changing as far out as the forecast goes.
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Having said that, the winter was SO wet - here, it started raining sometime around the autumn equinox in September. And it rained pretty much every day from then until around the spring equinox last month. Christmas Day was fine. We had about 3 dry days together in early February. I'd say we had no more than a dozen days when it didn't rain in daylight hours for the whole of that 6 month period (and on quite a lot of those it did rain at night). Then we passed the equinox and it stopped. And we've had one brief overnight shower in the last 3 or 4 weeks. It's like someone turned a tap off. So although the weather now isn't very unusual, the contrast with the winter is rather extraordinary.
And by the way, don't place too much reliance on weather forecasts more than 3 or 4 days ahead at the moment. As I said, the reduction in aeroplane traffic may or may not be affecting the weather but it's definitely affecting the weather forecasts - they rely on data from high altitude flights to refine the accuracy of models but with so few flights, the longer term models are a lot less detailed just now.
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