10 days in, I'm on 0.5 mm, with that haven fallen in the early hours of Sunday 7th. So I've not seen any rain falling by daylight.
Last time that happened was on the morning of 25th June.
Interesting to watch the vegetation dry out and start to turn various shades of yellow and brown, so soon after seeing 128% of the usual June rainfall.
...but then, that wasn't actually all that much rain, as June has a 1979-2018 LTA of only 50.5 mm here.
64.7 mm is drier than the average for each month Oct-Jan here.
Also, a lot of that input will have been snatched up by thirsty plants or lost to evaporation.
After considering all of that, it becomes a lot less eyebrow-raising to see regional stream levels looking pretty low - after all, they barely made it past typical levels in mid-June .
So, I'm looking out for heavy showers tomorrow, though I'm outside the area that most models produce much for. The negative vorticity associated with the Azores-Atlantic ridge might just about extend over here and put a low lid on the cloud formation.
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