no rain in Thames Valley
"kiticat" wrote in message
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dave r wrote:
During these brief and almost a week long unsettled spells the trend so
far this year seems to be of interruptions by rather lengthy Anticyclonic
periods then the Home Counties both west and north of London appear to
have missed the rain bearing clouds once again. Everywhere else in the
country, be it the SW, Wales, the NW NI and naturally enough Scotland
have all had a mass profusion of the stuff, yet here in the little old
Thames Valley yet again we struggle with a smattering today of light rain
or 'spitting' as the terminlogy once was. If, as it seems the recent
forecasting shows, we do not get much in the way of any rain at all - yet
again - the forthcoming weekend is to be followed by another High
pressure influence, for the S. we are in for a serious rain deficit once
again with tinder dry brown grass and trees everywhere.
If you dont like rain then here is were you should live. This Thames
Valley /west London Approaches including Berks Bucks must surely be a big
contender for the driest place in the country. Incidently, WHERE IS? the
driest part of the UK it was always assumed to be East Anglia ?
dave r
west London
I think north Hampshire is a serious contender. We had (allegedly as I
wasn't here) a downpour on Monday which put about 10cm of water into the
water butts. Other than that just a very light drizzle which has done
nothing but encourage all the slugs out (who decapitated my newly planted
sweetcorn - its war now!)
Apart from mondays brief rain there has been nothing real since the end of
March. I've lost an apple tree and I think its partly down to drought (and
I think it was got by fire blight), I dug it up and the soil was dry as
far as I could dig.
Sarah
:-0 incredible.
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