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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    It's raining again when according to the forecast last night, it wasn't supposed to.
    Gardening postponed.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited 28 February
     We're enjoying a rare dry morning @Lizzie27 so OH has been able to get on an take out the naughty wisteria stems diving behind the annex gutter and under the garage roof while I was at physio.

    Set to be wet again this afternoon and for the next few days tho so back to patchwork homework for me.
    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
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    We have a whole day of dry here @Obelixx before it's back to rain tomorrow! I have three trees in standing water at the moment.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It rained all of Sunday when I had to fix downpipes and guttering, then the sun shone on Monday when I was stuck at my desk again. The Met office are refusing to forecast anything they can't see out of the window at the moment and they even get that wrong half the time.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    At least you could tell if the repairs had worked😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The live testing was useful I will admit. Those jobs were on my to do list for the Xmas break so I'd already put them off long enough. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Forecasts seem to be getting more divergent.  In the past there may be variations in timing between the Met Office and BBC forecasts but they were broadly similar.  Now one will say it's going to rain all day and the other will say it's going to be dry.  No way to plan anything in advance.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Forecasts and wind directions are all over the place here @wild edges and I had rain on the way to La Roche this morning @floralies.   I can see rain coming our way now.
    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
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited 28 February
    Just recently I think Netweather has been more accurate than either the Met Office or the BBC (for my location anyway).
    I generally look at all three and then take my best guess.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    edited 28 February
    Problem is we are a kinda maritime island?

    We have a reputation of being obsessive about weather?
    People worldwide think we are obsessed with our weather and forecasts.
    But as a (re-known?) island of gardeners generally we have to be obsessive of the weather and about forecasts in order to know what the heck we are supposed to do...

    So it remains somewhat unpredictable and changeable.

    I thought the Isle of Mann was and still probably is crazy weather when we visited a couple of times many years ago.
    (As an aside a cracking place :):) ) Wonderful people.
     One side you could be in fog and rain and wind while the other side could have sun.
    It seems almost stable here on the bigger isle of UK.

    But still the main land is larger compared but still somewhat unpredictable and unstable.

    Rest Case.
    Fork stuck in. Done...

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