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[Lightning Phil]

A smattering of rain yesterday in Hertfordshire but it didn’t turn into anything substantial. It remains humid.

[orienteer]

Torrential rain in Uxbridge yesterday between 16.00 and 17.00, about 12mm, added to the 7mm from the evening before.

Should help to start the garden recovery.

[Giraffe]

Here there was a light shower this morning; 2 miles up the road there were puddles; southern edge of N. thampton there was debris washed across the cycle/footway. I wants rain - only about 150 li in the butts so about another 400 needed.

[perpetual dan]

The rain I saw yesterday driving south from Corby was heavy enough to take a free flowing motorway down to 20mph, but quite isolated - the transition from nothing to full force was just a few strokes of the wiper.

There has been rain here in Sussex yesterday, but we're now back to blue skies.

[Mr Larrington]

24°C here again, inside and out. I'm still wearing Very Little around the house.

TimC, your reference to Death Valley is an interesting one in that in the past week or two they've had massive floods, which I saw described as "the third once-in-a-thousand-years event in the past 3 years." Obligraun: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/death-valley-floods-climate-crisis

Haha, yes I saw that! A friend of mine recently completed an ultra marathon in Death Valley, so stuff about the place keeps coming up in my SM feeds. I rode through DV in 2019, and frankly it didn't feel as hot as it has here recently - the benefits of very low humidity (and November).

They had similar, though probably not as severe, flooding in DETH Valley in, IIRC, 2005.  Washed away most of the roads at any rate.

[Basil]

At last. A biblical light drizzle.  That's not really going to help, is it?

[ElyDave]

Its actually raining here!

Not just a mere drizzle, but proper real wet rain. I just wandered about in the garden to water the greenhouse, its wonderful.

But I hope it stops for next week

[Basil]

We have just had an official drought declared for this area.

[Wowbagger]

The rain forecast for this morning has again failed to materialise. 24°C here at the moment. The last day during which the temperature remained below 20°C was 19th June.

[Wowbagger]

We had a brief shower at lunchtime which delivered about 0.5mm. 26°C again now and keeping an eye on the Sewage App to check that the beach I'm aiming to swim at remains clean.

[Basil]

My phone says it will rain tomorrow.   It's always tomorrow.
Of course, it won't. 

[Jurek]

We had rain overnight.
Wet cars and puddles when I got up this morning.

[rafletcher]

Two showers today, one of 5 minutes, one of 2.

[Wowbagger]

Reached 26°C in our garden again. A quick tally gives 11 days > 30°C so far. It's doubtful we will get another.

Thinks: ah yes, no quick tally needed. The software does that.

http://192.168.0.2/weewx/tabular.html?report=NOAA/NOAA-2022.txt

                                       TEMPERATURE (C)

                              HEAT    COOL                              MAX    MAX    MIN    MIN
          MEAN   MEAN         DEG     DEG                                >=     <=     <=     <=
 YR  MO   MAX    MIN    MEAN  DAYS    DAYS      HI  DAY     LOW  DAY     30      0      0    -20
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2022 01    9.1    3.4    6.1  379.3    0.0    15.3   01    -0.5   06      0      0      1      0
2022 02   11.7    5.3    8.4  278.5    0.0    15.6   16     2.0   11      0      0      0      0
2022 03   12.5    5.3    8.6  301.3    0.0    19.2   23     0.3   21      0      0      0      0
2022 04   15.1    6.2   10.4  239.1    0.0    21.1   12    -0.7   03      0      0      2      0
2022 05   19.6   10.6   14.8  109.5    0.5    24.9   06     5.5   09      0      0      0      0
2022 06   22.1   12.6   17.3   43.6   12.4    31.4   17     8.6   02      1      0      0      0
2022 07   26.3   15.7   21.0    2.2   83.4    36.7   19    12.6   04      4      0      0      0
2022 08   27.4   16.5   21.6    0.0   65.0    31.7   14    12.2   06      6      0      0      0
2022 09
2022 10
2022 11
2022 12
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          17.6    9.2   13.2 1353.4  161.3    36.7  Jul    -0.7  Apr     11      0      3      0

[andrewc]

Ah that's better.  Water from the sky...  though not really enough.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD5b_0QB0wI

[rafletcher]

Yet another day where the threat promise of rain just melts away. And tomorrow is the last day of hosepipe use for a while. Surprisingly the vast majority of our garden is coping, and in the completely-unwatered- for- months front patch the rosemary, viburnum, daphne and clematis all seem happy. I guess the benefits of a clay subsoil.

[Basil]

Wow!  Puddles and every everyfink.
I'd forgotten what they looked like.

[Canardly]

Still no rain.

[ElyDave]

Today I other managed to wear my waterproof and get sunburnt on the same ride, SPF50 tomorrow

[Wowbagger]

28°C here again today.

The Met Office is forecasting 12 hours of rain for us, commencing around 2am, with thunder. 80% chance of heavy rain between 8am and noon tomorrow. If they do a volte face on this one it will be spectacular.

[Wowbagger]

Eels. Photo taken in Southchurch park, a couple of miles from my house. Nicked from facebook.

The lake is very low in both water and oxygen. The comments beneath are largely blaming the council for not refilling the lake. No-one has suggested where the council is going to find several thousand cubic metres of water. There are some live and some dead eels.

[Kim]

No-one has suggested where the council is going to find several thousand cubic metres of water.

With or without jobbies?

[Wowbagger]

No-one has suggested where the council is going to find several thousand cubic metres of water.

With or without jobbies?

That all goes in the sea, which is only a very short distance from this lake. http://streetmap.co.uk/map?X=589947&Y=185005&A=Y&Z=115 refers.

[rafletcher]

Proper rain this morning, nice and steady, not too heavy. Forecast for the next hour or 2 4, the edge of the system that’s probably deluging parts further east.

ETA, that'll fill the water butt up, and give the garden some respite

[nicknack]

Yesterday's forecast reckoned we'd have about 8 hours of solid rain today, starting at about 3am. Of course, we've had none and it looks pretty much like we won't get any at all despite the forecast still showing loads.