[strangerachael]

I don't know if it's just my part of the country, but we have had no significant rain since the end of February    There was rain forecast for last night but it didn't materialise. Now the heavy rain showers forecast for the weekend have been downgraded to a little bit of light rain on Friday (and I'll believe that when I see it), then back to warm dry and sunny.
I know most people won't want a rainy bank holiday weekend, but my garden and allotment REALLY REALLY need rain - and lots of it

[GreenOwl]

Did you read my mind?

[Azazello]

Similar down here but the met office seems to think that it will start raining again at some point.

Let's hope it's not too long. At least the heat's abated somewhat.

[Plottered]

Same here in the north west, I cant remember the last time we had a decent amount of rain and the ground is parched on our plots....reminds me of Spain in August its that dry.

[GreenOwl]

When it finally does rain, it will rain lots and we'll get really sick of it unfortunately.

[mumofstig]

no rain here either, the lotti is dust 

[Jamie Butterworth]

Weve only had a bit of rain last weekend, which just ran off the ground like its concrete its that hard

[sion01]

we had a little rain yesterday morning but could do with 10 times as much.Everything has just shot up in the last 24 hours including the weeds.Heavy rain was forcast for the weekend but have just looked at the 5 day forcast and it's now changed to sunny.
I really hope it won't be like the last two years ,nice spring ,wet summer

[Charl89]

i'm very far south and we havent seen any rain for ages too. i'm not complaining though, it makes me go to the allotment everyday and water well and try dig through the last bits i gotta dig. 

[JaK]

No rain here either and the water butts are both empty now too.

[Nige2Plots]

No rain here either and the water butts are both empty now too.

Same here too!

[Swing Swang]

No rain, but no hosepipe ban, and an unmetered water supply (for the time being) thank goodness.

[lancashiregardeninggal]

No rain, but no hosepipe ban, and an unmetered water supply (for the time being) thank goodness.

Same here - but we are usually the first for the hosepipe ban - last year they began shutting some of the canal stretches off because of the rain shortage but that was in the summer - I am sure it has never been this dry this early on in the year

[azubah]

No rain here in the sunny midlands either. They are having it all in Australia. They were complaining that they have had none for 10 years, and now it has started it won't stop.

[BabbyAnn]

The other day I was planting the last of my seed spuds on the plot and the soil was bone dry and dusty the entire spade depth of the trench    Yet the day before we'd had a thunderstorm and at least 10 minutes of heavy rain ... where did the water go?