March 23.9mm

April 24.5mm

May 0.0mm

26 days of no rain up to 0900 21/5

33 days with only 1.3mm

As John has detailed on here, it's becoming a problem up here

I sympathise. We've had no rain at all this month. 29.7mm in April and just 3.6mm in March. Vegetation here is starting to parch as the chalk, which was saturated at the end of winter, dries out.

Not a fan of May bloom then 😂. I like it, though it isn't the most fragrant of flowers...

Rain? Met O more optimistic. But the chances of this drought being reversed (before isolation reduces at least) look slim.

13mm this month here. Our last three months go 5mm, 140 mm 13mm.

4mm today brings us up to 12.6mm for the month after 15.4mm in April and 9mm for March

I meant this May Bloom. As the algae dies off it creates the aroma of rotting sewage.

https://imgur.com/a/kSAxil9 

Ther was a seal patrolling the margins the evening before yesterday.

Reminds me of the seal and Saoirse Ronan in Outrun .

Ahh, my bad 😂

it's dry again today...

No worries. May Blossom on the other hand...

https://whisperingearth.co.uk/2012/05/19/blossoming-of-the-may/ 

A lot of folklore and science involved with it. My (good) neighbours have a tree in their garden. It's looked sorry for itself in the past few years but this year has a new lease of life. It's flourishing - I think they fed it last winter.

I've planted many over the years.

Just back from the tip. One of the staff said he's praying for rain. He lives in Poole which missed yesterdays downpour(s).

But here everything looks fresh and verdant with the spring dust washed away off leaves.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2655378 

I wonder if they use AI for the text stuff.

This afternoon will see a mixture of sunny spells and variable cloud cover, and it will be mainly dry with just the odd shower possible in spots.

Does this mean a few spots from a shower or a few spots might get a shower? Pedantic me of course.

........ I won't start the sketch, " 160mm - you don't know how lucky you are, in my day........." 😂

But March, April, May here - 4.5mm, 32.5mm, zero.

In the meantime though, we continue to have no rain whatsoever, and that is reflected very much in this week's water scarcity report which was released today by SEPA.

Having said that, not an awful lot has changed in that report since this time last week but a number of areas which were on alert status last week as regards to water scarcity, have now been raised to moderate scarcity status. Those areas include any parts of the south of and east of Scotland and I can also inform MRayner that Speyside is one such location, which is very famous for its Scotch whisky production.

For now, the Western Isles are somehow managing to cling onto an early warning status for that but everywhere else is still on the same alert or moderate scarcity scarcity status which they were on last week.

The seriousness of this situation cannot be ignored with river,  loch and ground water levels remaining extremely low, and with many rivers now drying up completely in this part of the world.

As I mentioned above, there is now some rain in the latest model output but we are going to need a heck of a lot more rain than what the models are currently offering if we are going to see anything even resembling a proper recovery from this situation.

That brings the monthly total to a whopping 1.4mm now.

Today's water scarcity report from SEPA might well have answered your question to a certain extent because according to that, the River Spey was at its lowest level for this time of the year since records began, with those records going all the way back to 1952.

However, that is only for this time of the year which doesn't quite answer your question as that relates to the year as a whole which I also haven't been able to find any answers for.

It looks like it will break for us tonight.

Data For Recent Days

Total since 10 am BST (09:00 UTC) yesterday morning: 5.8 mm (as at 8:40 am BST (07:40 UTC) this morning on Saturday 24 May 2025)

We're now only a week away from the end of the month and yet, this is only our first recorded rainfall of this month, and our first recorded rainfall since 25 April 2025 thus bringing to an end, an official absolute drought which lasted for a total of 27 days. Furthermore, yesterday was only our first official rain day since 20 April 2025 which is more than an entire month ago.

It makes a pleasant change though to now finally be able to use this thread for its original intended purpose at long last.

Monthly Data

Total for this month so far: 5.8 mm (11.6% of 1991-2020 May average)

Number of rain days during this month: 1 (9.3% of 1991-2020 May average)

Number of dry days during this month: 22

Seasonal Data

Total for this spring so far: 56.6 mm (38.1% of 1991-2020 spring average)

Number of rain days during this spring: 10 (33.1% of 1991-2020 spring average)

Number of dry days during this spring: 61

Annual Data

Total for this year so far: 155.4 mm (19.8% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of rain days during this year: 28 (20.4% of 1991-2020 annual average)

Number of dry days during this year: 91

Note

This data has been obtained from https://www.ogimet.com  in raw BUFR format, and then converted into a more readable form by my own python script.

Saturdays early morning heavy at times rain predicted on the 22nd never arrived. (a few drops in the breeze which means the forecast was partly technically correct I suppose). Maybe some rain will materialise tonight the BBC suggest.

Tonight will become overcast and wet as spells of rain move in from the west.

Maybe. But again I wouldn't put money on the event taking place. But we seem to be in a more mobile situation weatherwise.

.............  unlike mine - which I forgot to brush out, doh! Still, some usually similar reading Wunderground stations within hundreds of metres gave 5.9mm which looked about right.