Drought

[GeorgeK]

Driest start to summer on modern record
BBC 20 July
After weeks of hot and sunny weather, it's official - the UK is experiencing its driest start to a summer since modern records began in 1961.
Just 50.8mm of rain fell between 1 June and 19 July, comfortably lower than the previous record of 58mm set in 2013.
England has been particularly dry, with only 21.4mm of rain since the beginning of June.
A Met Office spokesman told the BBC there was no "significant sign" of change "any time soon".

So June to July, drier than '76

 

[Honest john]

For Those dates here it's 0.

 

[Flat 10]

For Those dates here it's 0.

Snap funnily enough. Its really depressing.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Just 50.8mm of rain fell between 1 June and 19 July, comfortably lower than the previous record of 58mm set in 2013.
England has been particularly dry, with only 21.4mm of rain since the beginning of June.
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Who's getting all this rain?

 

[Iben]

5 mm yesterday! First rain for a month. Could be a few more mm this coming week, although forecast is always changing.

Luckily for us, we are a few C cooler than in the south.

 

[franklin]

Yellow alert for thunder yesterday....

...drizzle didn't even stop combine.

 

[Brisel]

1mm here last night. Has already evaporated. First measurable rain since 31st May.

 

[Captain Mainwaring]

7mm here yesterday. I started out quite pleased as it allowed us to start cutting some rape at sensible moisture. That didn't last long as it very quickly stopped us doing anything at all.

I suspect I also hold the dubious honour of being the only farmer in the south east to have hay rained on 2018.

Sent the staff home early and went and shot some pigeons in retribution.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

We’ve had 2mm of rain between those dates.

 

[e3120]

5mm here yesterday; green tinge on the grass this morning.

BUT, just as WB coming ready we have a forecast of no sun in the next 2 weeks, despite the TV forecasts being full of heatwave.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

The heat wave is here I’m afraid!

 

[Charlie--chalk]

6mm here last night.... First measurable rain since very early May. Very happy to have it but too late to help most crops as so much damage has been done! Good for the maize and grass though [emoji106]

 

[Acke]

In my neck of the woods , it have been dry but what hurts crops most here is the wery high temperatures!
From early May temps is 25-33c . Since snow melt we have 50 mm rain , it is littel but normal here. Last year we have a cool year and it was not much more rain. Next week we have temps in Range 29-35c . It hurts .

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Next wkend?

 

[Wombat]

Next wkend?
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Looks like a few days of them looking at your forecast, maybe a chance of something.

Just need a small bit for the grass, crops are on their way to ripening now regardless of rain.

 

[Honest john]

Next wkend?
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Your battery's getting low.

 

[e3120]

Next wkend?
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The display of the revised BBC forecast is a bit pants. In a couple of days in my example above, showery rain (1 drip) was forecast for 1 or 2 hours of the day, but the whole day is summarised as the 'worst' scenario. I doubt your area has 4 days & nights of continuous thunderstorms ahead.

Don't get me started on having to scroll through all the hours to see if it'll be breezy next week.

The underlying forecast isn't too bad, the bit halfway down where you can scroll the cloud/rain over is useful to make my own assessment of what risks to take.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

That forecast has changed already, they’ve taken all the thunderstorms off!

Have replaced with showers on the 1st,2nd.

 

[Honest john]

I find NR-YO the best of a bad bunch. It's easy to use & covers the world well everywhere I have been to.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I find NR-YO the best of a bad bunch. It's easy to use & covers the world well everywhere I have been to.

Think I’ll try that John, the BBC one is not fit for purpose.