Unsettled August

[Grassman]

Very little chance of any settled weather in August according to latest forecasts.
Turning out to be a complete contrast to last summer

 

[7610 super q]

Weather broke at the end of July last year in Crapweathershire. Starting to dread a nice May / June, as the weather never holds for harvest.

 

[Goweresque]

In average terms, April, May June and July are the dry months in the UK, averaging 70-80mm/month. You then have the middling months February,March and August which average between 85-100mm/month, and finally the wettest months, October, November December and January, all over 120mm/month.

Thus August, while falling into what we consider summer is actually not a particularly dry month, the 4 months that precede it all are drier, and I guess we expect it to continue like that, and are surprised when it doesn't.........

Not only all that, but the last 20 years have had a series of wet Augusts, while the 20 years prior to that (1980-2000) had a series of dry ones. So the long term average has been rising over recent years. We are now back to similar values for average August rainfall that were last seen in the mid 1950s.

Data here:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/resear...temperature-rainfall-and-sunshine-time-series

Edit: I missed out September, its a middling month too.

 

[Wombat]

It's looking crap either way, I thought it was too much to have 2 consecutive summers

 

[JP1]

Very little chance of any settled weather in August according to latest forecasts.
Turning out to be a complete contrast to last summer

Dry as dry here as usual

 

[michael N123]

Loads more grass than last year atleast

 

[bobk]

Very little chance of any settled weather in August according to latest forecasts.
Turning out to be a complete contrast to last summer

Forecast was shite for this week , not rained since friday , best not watch .... you'll be no wiser

 

[bobk]

Loads more grass than last year atleast

Too much .

 

[Grassman]

Forecast was shite for this week , not rained since friday , best not watch .... you'll be no wiser

Wish I had mown a bit on Friday. Would of had a couple of showers but could of been baling haylage today!

 

[Wombat]

Wish I had mown a bit on Friday. Would of had a couple of showers but could of been baling haylage today!

30mm in an hour last night would have killed that idea here

 

[Grassman]

30mm in an hour last night would have killed that idea here

We only got 3mm

 

[teslacoils]

Forecasting has been less reliable than the weather.

 

[bobk]

Forecasting has been less reliable than the weather.

I'd say equally unreliable . big smile

 

[Wombat]

We only got 3mm

At one point our weather station said 124mm/hr so we had that in about a minute and a half

 

[Raider112]

Another heatwave for the 2nd half of the month I read this morning.
Unfortunately I was reading the Daily Star.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Very little chance of any settled weather in August according to latest forecasts.
Turning out to be a complete contrast to last summer

Hopefully it's right. It's still desperately dry in the SW, fortunately we haven't had the heat of last year but I've got 500+ 'grazing ' cows that have been near enough 100% silage and cake fed for a month now.

 

[Wombat]

Hopefully it's right. It's still desperately dry in the SW, fortunately we haven't had the heat of last year but I've got 500+ 'grazing ' cows that have been near enough 100% silage and cake fed for a month now.

You have our wet and we will take the dry till about April ta

 

[DeeGee]

Another heatwave for the 2nd half of the month I read this morning.
Unfortunately I was reading the Daily Star.

Can’t be any more inaccurate than the Express with its hackneyed headline grabbing predictions of Biblical drought and floods that never come to pass, any more than do their annual autumnal warnings of ‘Brrrrace yourselves for the worst winter for decades!’ ‘Temperatures to plummet below zero for months on end of arctic conditions!’

I’d go with the Star over the Express any day, but the truth is nobody really knows what will happen in a fortnight’s time, let alone predicting six months ahead.

 

[Mc115reed]

The last 7 days actually hasn’t been that bad ... shame the weather forecast keeps saying rain that never comes so everybody’s scared too do anything....

 

[jendan]

In average terms, April, May June and July are the dry months in the UK, averaging 70-80mm/month. You then have the middling months February,March and August which average between 85-100mm/month, and finally the wettest months, October, November December and January, all over 120mm/month.

Thus August, while falling into what we consider summer is actually not a particularly dry month, the 4 months that precede it all are drier, and I guess we expect it to continue like that, and are surprised when it doesn't.........

Not only all that, but the last 20 years have had a series of wet Augusts, while the 20 years prior to that (1980-2000) had a series of dry ones. So the long term average has been rising over recent years. We are now back to similar values for average August rainfall that were last seen in the mid 1950s.

Data here:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/resear...temperature-rainfall-and-sunshine-time-series

Edit: I missed out September, its a middling month too.

F*ck off! Ive still got over 100 acres grass to cut.