getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

Walked across some playing fields today that I last walked on the 20th
of Feb when they were saturated. Today like Concrete. There has not
been a drop of rain in between. There are to be serious implications
for crop production in this part of the East Midlands this year.
Getting bloody desperate for water. Cant see anything in the near
forecast. Tonights has fizzled out.

getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

On Apr 29, 6:41*pm, ned flanders wrote:
Walked across some playing fields today that I last walked on the 20th
of Feb when they were saturated. Today like Concrete. There has not
been a drop of rain in between. There are to be serious implications
for crop production in this part of the East Midlands this year.
Getting bloody desperate for water. Cant see anything in the near
forecast. Tonights has fizzled out.

I've been a little jinxed since I started in Lawn Care. First the
winter arrives in November meaning no seed germinated in the autumn,
then just as spring begins we have next to no rain for 2 months now.
I'm on a hinding to nothing here, is someone up there trying to tell
me something ?

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

On 29/04/11 20:11, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
On Apr 29, 6:41 pm, ned wrote:
Walked across some playing fields today that I last walked on the 20th
of Feb when they were saturated. Today like Concrete. There has not
been a drop of rain in between. There are to be serious implications
for crop production in this part of the East Midlands this year.
Getting bloody desperate for water. Cant see anything in the near
forecast. Tonights has fizzled out.

I've been a little jinxed since I started in Lawn Care. First the
winter arrives in November meaning no seed germinated in the autumn,
then just as spring begins we have next to no rain for 2 months now.
I'm on a hinding to nothing here, is someone up there trying to tell
me something ?

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home& Abroad"


Just checked the Met Office radar, there appears to be some heavy
organised rain brushing the south coast but again, it does not seem to
have got as far north as Horsham.

I bought a second water butt a month ago and am still waiting for some
significant rain to fill it up. The first one will be dry by the end of
the bank holiday weekend if it stays dry. It is ridiculous the lack of
rain here this last two months.

Wonder if we'll have another South East forcefield this year :-)

getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

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

getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

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.

getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

"Adam Lea" wrote in message
...
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)
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getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

"Phil Layton" schreef in bericht
...
: 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

getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

On Apr 30, 11:27*am, Adam Lea wrote:
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.

Rain frustratingly just to the south of us. Hopefully some will
develop and push further north this afternoon, but I'm not holding my
breath!

getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

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

"Adam Lea" wrote in message
...
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 live in Horsham, West Sussex.

It is clay soil in my garden. The back lawn is still green but has
stopped growing, the front lawn is yellow. It is mainly vegetable and
flower seedlings that I sowed last month that I have to keep watering,
plus the potatoes. The Hollyhocks, Dicentra and other perennials have
almost stalled but herbs like Lavendar, Thyme, Sage and Rosemary are
thriving (probably because they are adapted to dry spells).

I'm planning to replace the few sq meters of front lawn with a Thyme
lawn which will cope much better with drought (and look better as well).

I'm sure we'll get some significant rain soon. The Met Office outlooks
keep hinting at a transition to more unsettled conditions throughout
May. There are no general water restrictions at the moment as the ground
water supplies are healthy but if your gut feeling of a continually
blocked pattern and a warm dry summer comes off I can see hosepipe bans
here in the not too distant future.

getting seriously fed up with the lack of rainfall
 

On Apr 29, 6:41*pm, ned flanders wrote:

Walked across some playing fields today that I last walked on the 20th
of Feb when they were saturated. Today like Concrete. There has not
been a drop of rain in between. There are to be serious implications
for crop production in this part of the East Midlands this year.
Getting bloody desperate for water. Cant see anything in the near
forecast. Tonight's has fizzled out.

I tole ya boy, plug yer drainz inter uh worter butt. I int gonner
teldjer nomore.

Seriously this country's agricultural businesses and practices have
been living on sand for a long while now. And we are going to look
pretty silly asking for the EU to bail our farmers out when the east
Europeans campare their lot with ours and ask why Tesco.co.etc don't
pay the farmers a living wage.

Speaking of which and somewhat off topic, what has been going on with
Tesco lately. I gather there is some opposition to them opening shops?

Not bothering with the news and stuff, I must have missed something.
What has inspired people to petrol bomb the buggers and not blow up
Parliament like they aught to?