On Apr 30, 1:39*pm, Dawlish wrote:

I'm not holding mybreath!


Pity.
Try sticking it in a bucket of water. That will help.

"Phil Layton" schreef in bericht
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: If no rain today, I'm heading for my driest month since the AWS was set
: up in 1997. I'm still at 0.6mm for the month, which would beat April
: 2007 when there was 1.0mm.

In Brussels it would not be possible to beat April 2007 which recorded 0.0
mm !

Colin Youngs
Brussels



It's ok, we will have plenty of rain in June and July.

Just waiting for the northern blocking to get itself into place to wreck the
summer again.

Jim, Bournemouth

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"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
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On 30/04/11 19:10, Jim Smith wrote:


"Phil Layton" schreef in bericht
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: If no rain today, I'm heading for my driest month since the AWS was set
: up in 1997. I'm still at 0.6mm for the month, which would beat April
: 2007 when there was 1.0mm.

In Brussels it would not be possible to beat April 2007 which recorded
0.0
mm !

Colin Youngs
Brussels



It's ok, we will have plenty of rain in June and July.

Just waiting for the northern blocking to get itself into place to wreck
the summer again.

Jim, Bournemouth


I did have a brief look into this supposed link between April and June
rainfall. I found that going back 40 years, there was a small negative
correlation but it was heavily influenced by two years, 1997 and 2007.
If those years were removed the correlation was actually positive,
although still insignificant. I tried looking at different historical
time-periods (20, 30, 50 and 60 years) with much the same results.

From that brief investigation it looks like, historically, there is no
significant relationship between April and June rainfall. This leads me
to believe that statements suggesting such a link are being heavily
influenced by one or two memorable years.

There are other ways to investigate this e.g. contingency tables, which
I suspect would lead to the same conclusion.

(Dataset used was UKMO HadEWP)

On 30/04/2011 11:57, Will Hand wrote:

"Adam Lea" wrote in message
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On 30/04/11 06:36, Phil Layton wrote:
If no rain today, I'm heading for my driest month since the AWS was set
up in 1997. I'm still at 0.6mm for the month, which would beat April
2007 when there was 1.0mm

Phil
Guildford

Wow that would be a seriously dry month. The Met Office rainfall
anomaly map for April should look interesting.

I was up in Salford over Easter and my dads garden was full of
flowers. In contrast, mine seem to be really struggling and I still
have large patches of bare soil everywhere. Seems a shortage of rain
has a similar effect on the garden to a prolonged cold spell.

Only 16.4 mm in Haytor so far this month (normal is 92mm, second driest
month).
Ground is nice and hard and dry and moorland bogs are firming up nicely.
Soil is moist in undisturbed soil after about an inch, freshly dug soil
is a bit drier. No watering needed yet apart from patio tubs and hanging
baskets and veg. seeds newly sown. Grass is green and has slowed down a
bit in the past week, thank goodness. Most amazing thing this Spring is
how lovely the flowers are, all fresh and colourful and coming so
quickly too! Where do you live Adam, seems like you are having serious
problems there, also what type of soil? If it is clay then it will dry
like concrete on the surface unless you dig in lots of manure. Clay
soils hold nutrients well though. If it is sand then it will dry out to
a great depth very quickly.

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)

I've got lovely Midland loam. The lawn as hardly grown at all in a
week, just needed a once over this afternoon. Unfortunately, the water
pressure is low today. It's one way to stop people using their sprinklers!

Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl