.... Talking of April showers, a pesky one has just ruined our drought.
0.2 mm of rain, not enough to do the garden any good at all, now
already almost evaporated, just enough to tip the rain gauge (you could
hear it balanced on the edge), but just enough bringing to an end 18
rainless days. This is the fourth longest drought in my records, and
not that far short of the record 21 days in summer 1999.

This rain wasn't forecast; indeed, none was forecast until Thursday.
It's all very annoying.

Trevor Harley
Lundie, 10 miles NW Dundee
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/