[Growster...]

Our gentle rain finally stopped about 30 minutes ago. Not nearly enough but a good start...


Started again at 8pm

Same here Mum! Good rain most of the day...

[lettice]

Between 1:50am and 2:30am we 1.7mm of rain!
That was 33 days without any rain here.
The last rain we had that my rain meter recorded was 15th/17th June of 0.2mm and 0.1mm. The last significant rainfall was on June 7th.
Noticed the rain has bought out the slugs slugs. Not seen hardly any of those for a good month in the veg garden.
Picked them up and now in the nematode bucket to brew. Was getting worried, as the bucket has been looking quite empty.

[JayG]

Rain radar looked very promising yesterday afternoon, but the really lively colours passed to the north and south of here, where we had the not-so-grand total of 3mm.

Forecast has tantalising hints of possible thunderstorms here and there later, but I reckon they're just trying to reduce the rate of drought-depression amongst gardeners, so I'm not holding my breath (or putting the watering cans away!)

[New shoot]

We had rain starting around 9.30pm last night that pitter pattered on for a good while.  Everything this morning has raindrops on it and the garden is loving it (and so am I) 

[mumofstig]

We had 4mm over the course of yesterday and another 3.5mm at 3am so the soil is damp on top, but suspect it hasn't got down very far. Fingers crossed for a thunderstorm or 3 today
It's 21C and quite bright this morning although not much blue sky to see.

[Lardman]

Horrible headache weather all day; hot, humid, still and very little sunshine.   

[John]

We started off damp with a little drizzle and then thick fog descended. The afternoon was overcast and quite cool by recent standards - around 17/18º
I reckon we've had something like 15 mm of precipitation (could hardly call it rain!) but apart from the grass and surface of the soil it's not done a lot of good. Planted out some brassicas and the soil was bone dry about 4" below the surface. However, wet surface to the soil brings the slugs and snails out to slither to the seedlings.

[Lardman]

Headache weather again already Im not sure how much rain we had in the end but it was dust dry again by dinner time yesterday.

[Plot 1 Problems]

Same here Lardman. Headache weather and the ground is dry again. I dug down a little yesterday in an empty bed and the soil is still moist 2-3 inches deep and none of my crops are complaining too much though.

[Lardman]

I dug down a little yesterday in an empty bed and the soil is still moist 2-3 inches deep

It's so dry here you can't even dig a hole 3" deep !

Very still and 'airless' this morning, already too hot and bright sunshine - it has the feel of a very hot day in the making.

[mumofstig]

It's ....

[JayG]

Think the heat has got to my local online weather station, which is reporting an air temperature of 25C with a 'feels like' of 26C! 

With no breeze and humidity of 61% it sure feels hot to me and it's only 10 o'clock! 

[John]

Snowdonia living up to its reputation as the holiday capital of Wales.. lightest of light drizzle and thick fog with a liveable 18º temperature.

[New shoot]

Snowdonia living up to its reputation as the holiday capital of Wales.. lightest of light drizzle and thick fog with a liveable 18º temperature.

I will happily swap you for hot, airless and sticky   

[Fairy Plotmother]

Too hot and too dry. Haven't had a drop of rain for 3 weeks and even then it was only a drop.