That's what it looked like walking back through the woods this afternoon.
The ground was covered with leaves, but didn't look right. They were all
still green!!! On a serious point though, I reached up a few times and bent
the leaf stalks that were still on the trees. SNAP every time. They were
bone dry and brittle. I wonder how many of those leaves would have come off
if we had had some rain over the last few months. Half an hour later I was
soaked to the skin when the last of the front went through. 1.5mm in 20
minutes. About 1% of what we really need.

jim, Northampton

On Mon, 23 May 2011 at 23:12:03, jbm wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

1.5mm in 20 minutes. About 1% of what we really need.

Be careful what you wish for - we had that 100% in 2007...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)