On Jun 6, 11:05*am, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Jun 6, 1:29*am, Tudor Hughes wrote:





On Jun 5, 8:00*pm, "Will Hand" wrote:

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

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On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 at 16:21:31, Will Hand
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"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message
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Only 0.6mm here today. I didn't bother watering this morning because I
was *expecting a decent amount.

Well I did say not to expect too much in the already dry areas as the dry
ground would not provide enough moisture!

I always thought rain usually fell from the *sky*...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

As I said the other day, in order to get substantial showers (in the absence
of upper forcing) you need a moisture supply from low down. A bone dry
ground mitigates against showers, doesn't stop them, although in very arid
deserts it does where convection is of the dry thermal type.

Will
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* * *In the last 8 hours about 21 mm has fallen on bone-dry brown-
grassed north-east Surrey. *This forces me to conclude that the
moisture is of non-Surrey origin as it nearly always is when it rains
here. *I suspect a large part of it comes from evaporation of the
oceans and that the hydrological cycle is on rather larger a scale
than has been suggested, but who knows?

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Meanwhile, here, on the tip of Cornwall, surrounded by a rather large
quantity of water, not a drop all month so far. Still mainly sunny, as
it was yesterday, just cooler (18.9C max yesterday). The sc over the
sea breaking up as it approaches the coast, giving the typical blue
coastal strip before the land based cumulus develop.http://www.landsendweather.info/

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Very good to have you back Graham. I hope you enjoyed your break and
good to see that Cornwall is still connected to the rest of the UK.
Cloud breaking here too to give a pleasant afternoon. Ground far too
dry for rain, of course, but I'm enjoying the sunshine again and my
landscapers haven't lost 5 minutes of work since they started 2 weeks
ago. Another couple of weeks to go and will they be interrupted?