Cats sitting in the rain?  That’s desperation for you!  

Exceptionally dry June-July periods for England and Wales (<60mm)

1800: 35.8

1868: 36.5

1976: 48.8

1921: 39.6

1995: 57.8

1887: 58.9

Big blob of useful steady rain now over Kent and East Sussex; line of thunderstorms approaching from the west overnight; what is it about the West Sussex area and especially the coast that makes any precipitation vanish at the county border? 51 days and counting of absolute drought.

At the moment my total for June/July is 5.5mm

Met Office app is also now showing heavy rain here at 1700 hours.  That will be the first since May 30th and although it will be a shame to break such a long run, I really would welcome it just to dampen things down!  Friday evening has become my spot for giving the borders their weekly drenching, so I may be saved that task!  

I remember the days when we had a drought. Distant memory now! I thought I'd appreciate rain more.

I don't.

Yes!  I can smell rain!  

Petrichor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

I can’t, but I just felt a couple of blobs. My bbq started officially 1 minute ago.

So it's your fault!!!

( I thought filling the pond back up last week was the cause but nope, it was you!!!)

I do hope your barbecue goes well and Sod’s law doesn’t kick in!    

The radar is showing a band of rain coming from the West, then splitting in two at the Pennines leaving a clear path in the middle.  Guess who lives in that middle bit?!!!  

Yes, hardly wet the ground and certainly not measurable

Been peeing it down here in Manc for the last hour or so.

Miserable.

(And when it started raining, the smell of petrichor was about as strong as I've ever known it.)

Yes, still dry here and the stuff to the east is moving away now

The front coming down from the nw though will hopefully peter out so our chance of the record will remain

I can't cope with this typical Manchester weather after being spoilt for a couple of months 

........ and I’m still waiting!  

Not a sniff!  Oh wait, I did get a sniff but that was all I got, petrichor, no physical wet stuff though!   I just find it hard to believe we keep missing it.  I hope I’m not the only one still in drought tomorrow because I’ll find that pretty lonely!  And it means I’ll have to water the garden after all.   

Quite; no rain in Reading this afternoon (so far) and where I live the barest sprinkling.

I wouldn't worry about it Caz, what tiny amount of rain we got has already evaporated. Made no difference at all.

Ha!  We had rain and even a rainbow!  A very poor effort though and just  enough to wet the ground and break my absolute drought record but it’s done absolutely nothing else!  As for my garden, it wet the leaves but not the soil underneath, so I will be watering the borders in the morning after all.  Oh and the lawns look a brighter shade of yellow.