Not at all parched. Garden is very green and on my dog walks, I am having to navigate wet and muddy patches on the paths and fields.

It's very damp out there, and some parts of my regular dog walk remain impassable without wellies.

It really must be a different climate here in Witney to anywhere else.

It depend on soil type so perhaps your area is clay that take time to dry fast as my old place on Epsom is part clay which some spots stay green longer.  Nuneaton is part sandy soil as it dry so fast after any rain but stay damp longer under dense tree shade.

Not at all parched. Garden is very green and on my dog walks, I am having to navigate wet and muddy patches on the paths and fields.

It's very damp out there, and some parts of my regular dog walk remain impassable without wellies.

It really must be a different climate here in Witney to anywhere else.

To be fair, I agree with you on the lawn part, ours is looking pretty green considering how little rain we have had this year in general and certainly for the last couple of months. Our neighbour's paddock is very parched but that's because he doesn't have a scooby and mows it to within a mm of the surface - go figure... That said, albeit in chalk country generally, our higher locale is clay and the trails I frequent with dog and trail shoes are now rock hard again so interesting you need wellies. Soil type plays a part but like with snow melt, it's not rain that is the enemy but wind. If you don't get a good drying wind (even if cold), which we do being up high, things can and do stay boggy.

I don't think Witney has a different climate. I know when you have mentioned it has poured all day, I have looked at your local PWS's on Weatherlink (accepting they can be unreliable) and none of them have shown more than 5 or 10mm. So nope, not Witney, I think it must be your house/garden that has a different climate 

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Starting to look quite parched here now. Ground is rock hard . Although the charts next week look unsettled rain totals are low in the east at least.

Not that parched here - the ground is dry underfoot, the grass is perhaps a little yellowed in places, but nothing unusual for June. There's been 25mm this month and 53mm last year, so no great deficit to make up. I do, however, tend to keep the mower height relatively high... lots of people don't, and that's when you see LOTS of yellow appear!

(That said, I took a shortcut into the newbuild at work the other day and stepped through a very thin, dry crust on what turned out to be quite a deep puddle. Sploosh, mud everywhere...)

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Until the recent hotter weather, I was impressed how well the green areas were holding up despite considerable rainfall shortages since last November. The table below shows the anomalies since August 2021 (June scaled 1st-21st), within which October sticks out like a sore thumb but, fascinatingly, was then fully countered by the driest November on record.

Month	Rain % 1991-2020 LTA
Aug '21	49.9%
Sep '21	23.2%
Oct '21	141.7%
Nov '21	5.2%
Dec '21	67.9%
Jan '22	27.4%
Feb '22	79.8%
Mar '22	106.0%
Apr '22	24.4%
May '22	81.4%
Jun '22	34.7%

The mean anomaly across all those months is 58.3% so nearly half the usual rainfall has been absent.

Across Nov-Jun the deficit is even larger (53.3% anomaly). 

Despite this, it has taken some high temperatures followed by sunny, very warm days with low relatively humidity to trigger a mass fading of lawns toward straw shades.

The coming days look to bring a chance of showers on each, most of all tomorrow afternoon when locally large rainfall totals look possible. Alas, as John has correctly noted, short, sharp spells of rain do relatively little good when hitting hard-baked terrain. A lot of the water either runs off or evaporates before much has soaked in.

 Only a few miles west of you and what really dried it up and caused it to look parched was the wind last Friday Saturday and Sunday . Absolutely dried it to buggery on top 

Local golf course looking parched. Had some storms recently. But mainly dry, warm and always with a breeze has caused things to dry out. Great start to Summer in this part of the world

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The risk of possible water shortages is one thing but what is probably even more concerning and more serious as well is the growing risk of wildfires as a result of all of this dry weather.

In my younger days, that was something which I used to only associate with parts of Australia during the late autumn and summer in the Southern Hemisphere (i.e. around November/December).

However, this is something which appears to become more common and more widespread across the world in recent years to the extent that we have even seen the odd wildfire in places such as Arthur's Seat here in Edinburgh in recent years.

Today should have been the most unsettled day of this current spell of weather, but we had only occasional light rains and this was yet another day without any actual measurable rainfall here in Edinburgh.

Given the current synoptic setup with low pressure so close to here, you have to wonder where on Earth we are going to get any significant rainfall if we can't even get it from what on paper, should be a very unsettled setup.

This makes me really concerned about the water restrictions which I am still convinced, are coming to these parts with today showing that to be the case once again.

At the same time, there was a grass fire on Calton Hill as a result of all this dry weather which caused smoke to billow out right across the city to such an extent that I was even able to see that very clearly from where I live in the NW outskirts of the city.

Luckily, no-one was actually hurt or injured from that but unless we start getting some serious rainfall soon, the risk of more of these events happening is only going to grow and from that, it is only going to be a matter of time before people are seriously injured or possibly even killed from that.

Seen in this light, you will now hopefully see that this is no laughing matter, and is actually very serious indeed.

Furthermore, a lot of people have been saying that the rainfall deficit will probably be made up during the second half of this year but I was watching Gavin P.'s livestream tonight and there is nothing in those long-term forecast charts which he showed us during that livestream that this is actually likely to happen.

If anything, the next six months look every bit as high pressure dominated on those charts as the last six months and at the end of the day, we just can't keep on going on like that without some form of water restrictions coming in, in the end.

 

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Not looking unusual for the time of year here - grass just beginning to look a bit brown (though a lot more so, as noted above, where people have shaved their lawns close). A few puddles still remain in shady places, but anywhere exposed on tracks is now baked hard.

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Not any more, no. This morning brought the first significant rain (over 12mm) since early on in the month.

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Surprisingly parched here. Although this month has been very dry it follows a long run of average/wet months. Must be the bone dry wind which is exacerbating things.

Took these down at the River Dee yesterday and starting to look like 2018 already:

and a couple from today

Good to see  There's been far too many wet summers in recent years and I'd like to see July and August record a similar low rain total to this month. Doubt it will happen though.

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We had a sharp but fairly heavy shower today that actually wet the ground but not nearly enough to make any difference.  We continue to see rain showers within a few miles on all sides, yet it just manages to miss us.  Quite unbelievable really. 

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Some areas here are parched especially on shallow soil areas and grass verges.  Long may this continue and love every minute of the dryness,   It will never become a desert in this latitude no matter what and I see many are worried should not be as we needed a break from the wet weather.  Parched landscape are very beautiful to see.

You won't be surprised to hear that the Lake District is fairly soggy. After 25-50mm over the weekend the waterfalls and streams are cascading noisily!
There was a lively thunderstorm in the mix late Saturday night over the Central Fells.
Had a lovely walk this afternoon though to Loughrigg Tarn. Plenty of blue sky and lush greenery, fresh at 15 C

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Some areas here are parched especially on shallow soil areas and grass verges.  Long may this continue and love every minute of the dryness,   It will never become a desert in this latitude no matter what and I see many are worried should not be as we needed a break from the wet weather.  Parched landscape are very beautiful to see.

I agree that in the run up to last summer, we did need a break from all of the wet weather which preceded that.

However, we got that break last summer and even during the preceding spring in this part of the world (I can understand why a lot of southerners won't really agree with that since they didn't get such a good summer last year as what we had).

We have been in an almost constant predominately dry pattern of weather ever since and so, surely that is what we should be needing a break from now.

 

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Still doesn't look that wet for many central and eastern parts.
We have had 4mm since the breakdown, which is pretty much in line with those GFS prep charts that were posted showing it to be quite dry. Headingley Test Match was only disrupted yesterday morning and a couple of times with isolated showers over the weekend.
GFS only shows another 4-5mm here for the entire run. So whilst the weather will be far from classic for the next week, there doesn't look like much rain again for many/,

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Still doesn't look that wet for many central and eastern parts.
We have had 4mm since the breakdown, which is pretty much in line with those GFS prep charts that were posted showing it to be quite dry. Headingley Test Match was only disrupted yesterday morning and a couple of times with isolated showers over the weekend.
GFS only shows another 4-5mm here for the entire run. So whilst the weather will be far from classic for the next week, there doesn't look like much rain again for many/,

If there's any consolation though, at least the roof over the Centre Court at Wimbledon will probably not be used all that often this year, if that is even needed at all.

Here in Edinburgh, we are still not getting all that much rain here but the rain over recent days has started to come more regularly which is what we've been badly needing for quite a while.

Indeed, I even noticed from the pictures on Sky News that it was raining here even as the Queen arrived at Holyrood Palace here in Edinburgh  (so at least, Her Majesty is getting to sample some typical Scottish weather whilst she is here).

That rainfall is helping to make everything a bit less parched with the grass and everything else, starting to look a lot better as a result.

However, a lot of the model output has that only as a blip and if it dries up again during July as a lot of the model output is showing, it won't take long for a lot of areas to become very parched once again, including areas which have been holding up well against all of that dry weather so far.

 

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Starting to look very parched in places here now, very little rain yesterday. Today sums up the weather since May here, mainly sunny, windy, low 20s and dry.

 

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Parched here now and despite at least four or five weather fronts crossing us in the past few days no measurable rain has fallen for 9 days !

Just 14.6mm this month. 

Its been a dry year so far:

January 22.6mm

Feb - 44.1mm

March - 31.6mm

April - 13.5mm

May - 46.8mm

June 14.6mm so far.

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Here in Edinburgh, today is a case of normal service resumed for here as today's weather front is providing some decent rain elsewhere in the region, but giving absolutely nothing here as that rainfall just keeps on bypassing this part of the world and refusing to fall here.

I was out and about for a while earlier on and even after those bits and pieces of rain which we have recently been getting, there are some large parts of grassy areas which continue to look almost brown and completely burnt out.

If we can't even get some decent rainfall out of what is actually quite an active weather front that is moving over here just now, we never will and I would not now be the least bit surprised if we don't even get a single bit of meaningful rainfall between now and the end of this summer with the way that all of this is going just now.

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Plenty of rain in the Lakes still. Rained most of yesterday and overnight. Still drizzling this morning. We have an EA gauge onsite so will try and get figures

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It's been dry here in the supposedly damp south west. That was up until yesterday afternoon when we finally had some appreciable rainfall. There had been some bits and pieces of rain beforehand, but it only dampened the surface leaving the soil underneath dry.

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