Drought

[jorgenbg]

Scandinavia also very dry talking to some friends over there. Think you must have had a lot more rain than we have this last 6 weeks it's very nice though

Over here its 27-29 deg every day. No rain last 4 weeks.

 

[A1an]

Its not the lack of rain that's the problem, it's been the intense (for Scotland anyway) heat since it rained last.

We had the mother of all downpours yesterday, in fact some of us had snow. I've not seen rain like it in many years. You wouldn't think it today though.

 

[Acke]

High temperatures and lack of rain is hurt crops hard. Last 60 day less than 10mm rain April low temp and dry May temps around 25-30c

In my part of Sweden

 

[DRC]

High temperatures and lack of rain is hurt crops hard. Last 60 day less than 10mm rain April low temp and dry May temps around 25-30c

In my part of Sweden

I’ve just had a week of lovely warm weather in Norway. 28 degrees in Flåm

 

[Chae1]

Glad to hear it's hot and dry in Scandinavia too. Scottish maltsters like to import malting barley from Scandinavia to make Scottish whisky when it gets too expensive for them in Scotland.

 

[Acke]

They like high quality malting barly.

 

[jorgenbg]

I’ve just had a week of lovely warm weather in Norway. 28 degrees in Flåm

Thats on the tourist side of the mountains. Nice place though.

 

[DRC]

Thats on the tourist side of the mountains. Nice place though.

Yes, we cruised the fiords . Bergen etc.
We were very impressed with Norway, not only the scenery, but the lovely people and how spotlessly clean everywhere was.

 

[jorgenbg]

Yes, we cruised the fiords . Bergen etc.
We were very impressed with Norway, not only the scenery, but the lovely people and how spotlessly clean everywhere was.

Yeah, we keep it fairly clean for you tourists!

Dunno about the people though

 

[ladycrofter]

Rain-ish for about 30 min., only enough to clean the air. Still using the wipers in the morning to get the pollen and dust off the windscreen,

 

[Acke]

This evning we are blessed with 12 mm. Spread some N on springwheat and springbarly yesterday and today.
Its timing! Im in a good mood now

 

[H200GT]

Not much in the way of rain here yet, been overcast a good few hours, and we have had a sprikle of rain, but barely enough to keep the dust down.

Forecast does not promise a great deal either, with high pressure set to return early next week.

Having missed practically all the rain / thunderstorms last few weeks, some of the grass is starting to burn up now, and it could do with a drop or two.

That said, last few weeks have been most welcome after the miserable wet weather last few years, and I for one will be happy to see the sun return next week if the forecast is correct.

 

[jd2013]

Not much in the way of rain here yet, been overcast a good few hours, and we have had a sprikle of rain, but barely enough to keep the dust down.

Forecast does not promise a great deal either, with high pressure set to return early next week.

Having missed practically all the rain / thunderstorms last few weeks, some of the grass is starting to burn up now, and it could do with a drop or two.

That said, last few weeks have been most welcome after the miserable wet weather last few years, and I for one will be happy to see the sun return next week if the forecast is correct.

 

[jd2013]

Was forcasted 12mm, got 3.3 mm which with the wind has now dried up . Not really sure how the forecasters justify the wage.

 

[Surgery]

Was forcasted 12mm, got 3.3 mm which with the wind has now dried up . Not really sure how the forecasters justify the wage.

Lovely job to have doing the forecast , get paid well to be wrong most of the time

 

[jondear]

Even the most unqualified forecaster could tell days ago that the south was going to get nothing!But the way they go on was going to be rainaggedon all over the country!

 

[jd2013]

Wouldn’t be so bad if we were not desperate for the rain, 11.3 mm since mid April!

 

[Happy]

Was forcasted 12mm, got 3.3 mm which with the wind has now dried up . Not really sure how the forecasters justify the wage.

Pretty much the same down here Tayside/Fife.
Last night/today meant to be a washout. As you say, wind dried most of it up already.

 

[willy]

have to say we are dry but i think we will be alright with no more rain as we were lucky 3 weeks ago.

to be fair we in the east midlands are normally in this situation of drought in spring early summer.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Rain Wednesday night and last night and this morning amounted to about 20mm. Much appreciated, and I restarted the turbine which was switched off on Tuesday morning. Really nice to be working on hard ground instead of slippery mud.