This is an interesting article. The Met have been badly off in prediction of night time temps in London for weeks. They failed to forecast frosts for many nights - estimating 6oC and then adjusting the actual temps to -1 or 2oC. (You can check back on 'weather in the last 24 hrs').
The article mentions that in various studies of various forecast providers, BBC and Met stats came low in down in the charts. Accuweather did well - I will go back to looking at it too. I think it has the best graphics layout. It's US-centric which is irritating.
AccuWeather’s predictions were best for
temperature averages and highs, probability of precipitation and wind
speed. The Weather Channel and Weather Underground came top for low
temperature predictions... Floehr provided the Observer with
separate data on 12 forecasters... AccuWeather [came] fifth, MeteoGroup (the BBC’s
provider) sixth and the BBC ninth (based on Met Office forecasts). On
the correct prediction of precipitation, MeteoGroup came fourth overall
and the BBC 10th of the 12.
I have a little one. It's very useful (well it usually is, it's been empty for weeks now). My front garden is south facing and hot so the planting is mainly drought tolerant, but the pots on the doorstep and any new plants get watered more than I'd get round to otherwise.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
It's blown a gale here all afternoon. Rain started at 1pm, proper rain for first time in weeks, didn't stop till 9pm, maybe the water butt will have some.🙏
It's still blowing a gale and from inside it looks like it's pouring with rain. It is not. There is a fine dusting of droplets, which better than nothing, but I was outside for 5 minutes and there was only a mist on my jumper when I came in. This is all very frustrating.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Its rained here all day. From about 10 am we've had a steady downpour leading to big puddles everywhere. The only downside is the howling wind thats accompanied it.
I have a rainbutt inside a front garden hedge. Nobody knows it's there. This has been good for years. I have the hose always open so that the newish crabapple trees get all the water from the house roof, which has worked well. - - -Except - - now I need to check and perhaps clean it out and the idea does not seem so great. If it does need slooshing out or repair it's going to be a royal pain to extract it from the hedge.. But still, if you have a hedge, in the right place, near a down pipe, maybe think of putting a butt in it.
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