I think we appreciate that any amount of rain over the next couple of months isn't going to solve the drought problem, but at least it isn't being made worse. Even if we don't get enough to top up ground water levels and rivers, at least it's come at the right time for farmers, at the beginning of the main growing season when crops need to get established.
This time last year local farmers were having to irrigate fields on a daily basis. I saw a field being irrigated a couple of weeks ago but there's currently no need as we've had some very useful rain.
No Hosepipe ban for Bristol/Wessex Water.Even though Enviromental Drought declared today for south west.Rain rest of this week ...
Still not getting much in the way of rain here, 13.2mm so far this month, only 14.4.mm last month
It will come - I would never be suprised if we had a wet May quite frankly.
Things have improved (a little) on the River Severn here. According to the EA, it's now at 0.87 metres -- still low for April, of course, but better than the 0.2-0.3 metres we had a few weeks ago!
In the scale of things that's a big improvement really
Avon currently at 0.49m against a normal annual range of 0.46m to 1.9m
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2.4mm forecast for my postcode 9-12 this morning, reality 0.6mm
Total for today so far at nearly 10pm just 1.5mm,
We are definitely not getting anywhere near the amounts forecast
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Whoo Hoo... some decent rain at last 5.7mm so far today and my driveway puddle has appeared since I cant remember when.
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It's certainly looking good for this evening and tomorrow as well, down here anyway.
just over 80 mm for the month so far here in rutland and Rutland water is slowly but surely filling up again-pumping in since the 50mm rain event from two weeks back so i guess the nene and welland levels must be up to permit this.
I bet people who were wishing for rain will soon change their tune after a few months of unsettled weather.
Hasn't done anything else but rain here for quite a while, I don't mind so much but as long as July's dry I'll be happy, hols in (cringe) sunny Cornwall, will it be though?
16.6mm of rain yesterday and another 3mm this morning, bringing our April total to a very useful 61mm, which is already the biggest monthly total we've had in the past two years! That has to be good news for the farmers, the reservoirs and ground water levels, though we're still a long way short of annual totals.
Although I hate this grey weather, I don't mind if it rains for another couple of weeks, as long as it doesn't carry on till autumn! We're due a really good summer!
This rain is frustrating. What we need now is for the government to warn of imminent flooding so that we can get back into our drought.
If we can pin together some solid, unrelenting rain for a number of hours that is a possibility, as the ground is so hard around my way that the rain doesn't really penetrate. the last hard shower we had, couple of days ago, briefly turned my lawn area not into a swamp but a reservoir.