Almost like autumn
 

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

Almost like autumn
 

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)