After Thursdays high temperature it was back to normal on Friday. We made a visit to Clumber Park and had a look round the walled kitchen garden.
It appears like us that they too are suffering from a lack of rainfall with the most obvious signs being the dry lawn paths and some plants in the herbaceous borders suffering too.
I was surprised to find this article in the Daily Telegraph this week regarding the rainfall. The article goes on to quote the Met Office as follows;
The appraisal comes as forecasters predicted another week of mixed weather, and despite statistics showing above-average rainfall for May, June and July.Met Office figures show that in the first two weeks of this month alone, Britain was deluged with 2.4in (62.1mm) of rain – 89 per cent of the average total rainfall for the whole month. Rainfall was also up by 48 and 14 per cent for May and June respectively.
If the article had stated much or many parts of Britain was deluged with…. then that would be fine. But all Britain hasn't had this deluge of rain and nor was our rainfall above average for May and June. In both cases it was well below average. So exactly how do the Met Office arrive at these figures.
Since having a very wet February our rainfall from March to July is well below average.
Our average long term rainfall figures are February 47.8mm, March 41.9mm, April 57.9mm May 51.4mm, June 55.2mm and July 42.7mm. The graph of actual rainfall shows just how much we are below these average figures.
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