Very dry here now but last Sunday i drove home from Bristol Airport and it was dry till i was a few miles north of Salisbury but the rest of the way was wet and indeed the yard was flooded at home. 

 There has been a lot of vagary for this weekend regarding the Heavy Rain and Thunderstorms . I accept they are difficult to predict but every forecast i have seen since the warnings were issued seem to be "There will be a mega storm and heavy rain  somewhere but you probably wont get it "🙄

It was a lot of rain last night must be over 1 inch to 2 inches from the way how it lasted long time heavy rain and evening storm that brought very heavy rain with complete water running on south facing windows like you see in USA movies when it show heavy rain against the windows.

This should stop the whining about how dry it been, anyway UK will never ever get into African drought type due to being island surrounded by water mean no chance to keep months of dry weather.  Now looking forward for much welcome dry weather return as everywhere very soaking wet so take days to dry out.   Moomin ark was in used last night 😂

Ironically, I had no use for mine, as all we got were very light spots of rain for much of the time, with a very occasional heavier burst.

Only registered 3mm of rain from yesterday. 

Rainfall totals at Chilgrove near Chichester for the last 28 days

11/6/23 0.9 mm

17/6/23 0.1 mm

18/6/23 0.2 mm

'Nuff said.

Nick

Ditto - but it only lasted an hour so more is still needed

Same here  was no rain for a month but now got enough rain so no need for further rains and need to avoid it as lately is dangerous as once it rain it last weeks non stop.   Thankfully no more rain for a while to come after today.  

The local PWSs recorded between 10 and 13mm. It certainly was very heavy. I've been harvesting rainwater from all sorts of places in the garden and have added over 100 litres to our water butts.

😮

That's impressive!

Had 42mms of rain on Sunday sure as hell making up for the dry spell that's for sure.

We have a water butt collecting water from our shed roof (4 sq m), another collecting water from our greenhouse roof (6 sq m), covers over our garden furniture which fill with water when it rains (5 sq m in total). We also have a blocked soakaway on the driveway which also takes water from the study gutter, so I scooped up all that water as well.

1mm of rain is one litre per square metre, so having had over 10mm this morning, you can see how much you can collect. 😁

Indeed and all the more reason for new builds/extensions and so on to have rainwater collecting mandates as part of the planning permission.

That may be but we've now had enough rain according to some pundits here and the drought is long gone.

I'll be watering trees later today.

Nick

Overall, this week's report is similar to what came out last week. The general consensus from SEPA is what whilst recent rainfall has eased the situation a bit in quite a number of areas, this has still not been enough to bring about any sort of significant recovery in the overall situation, so more rain is still needed in order for that to happen.

In fact, the region of significant water scarcity which had already covered a small part of NW Scotland, has even been extended to include a small part of Dumfriesshire. In addition to that, there are also a few areas which were previously at alert level, but which are now at moderate water scarcity level.

However, the recent rainfall has also allowed a few areas to move out of moderate water scarcity in the other direction, to alert level with the rest of the moderate water scarcity area remaining as it is.

Everything else is the same as last week with the rest of Scotland remaining at alert level for water scarcity with the exception of Shetland which is still at early warning status.

This means that as of this week, nowhere in Scotland has actually returned to normal on this front just yet.

Anyone caught using hosepipes to water gardens, clean cars, patios and boats, and fill swimming pools face a fine of up to £1,000

Exemptions are in place for watering of new lawns for 4 weeks after laid and outside of peak hours between 8am to 10am and 5pm to 9pm

We have no hose, and make only modest use of watering cans. On the other hand we make use of "domestic water harvesting". By that I mean having a bucket or bowl handy for those occasions when you need to run cold water from a hot tap/shower before the warm comes through. You'd be surprised how much pure water you put down the drain in this way. Soapy water can be used to flush a loo. Why waste pure water? 🙄

I agree with your point entirely but there's no way that when i'm rushing to get ready in the morning that i'd have the time or patience to collect waste water. Kudos to you for managing to do so, Roger!

What we really need is the utilities within our houses to be re-engineered to make better use of the waste water that goes down our drains or collects in our gutters. 

On a micro scale installing water butts is a great starting point. I have about 1m3 capacity now and its been transformative to the way I garden and manage water. 

According to this latest report, recent rainfall has led to an improvement in many places, especially in some central and western areas but parts of the east which have been that bit drier, are still continuing to dry out further and this rainfall has generally not been enough for any widespread and significant improvement in the overall situation.

A few more areas in the north and far south of Scotland have been raised to significant water scarcity from moderate water scarcity, although one part of Dumfries and Galloway has gone in the opposite direction from significant water scarcity to just moderate water scarcity.

In addition to that, a few parts of NE Scotland have been escalated from alert level for water scarcity to moderate water scarcity although there is an area further to the west which has gone in the other direction from moderate water scarcity down to alert level for water scarcity.

The Shetland Isles have now been raised from early warning status to alert status for water scarcity but parts of the west of Scotland have been downgraded from alert level back down to early warning status for water scarcity.

According to SEPA, the general outlook is fairly unsettled which means that there should be some more rain to come, but the actual amounts of rain which are likely to fall are still uncertain and it is still possible that more locations might be raised to significant water scarcity level when it comes to next week's report is there continues to be no real improvement in the overall river levels.