Something unusual happened on our visit to the plot yesterday. It rained! After all the hot weather and the forecast of thunderstorms, which never happened here, it took one of the coolest days of the month for a thunderstorm to occur. A few spots of rain as a warning to take cover and then it tipped it down for a few minutes. We took shelter in the shed and watched the rain do some watering for us.
Mixed in with the rain were a couple of rumbles of thunder but the storm only lasted for a few minutes.
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| Temperature & Rain Rate Records for 16 June 2018 |
I don't know how the rain at home compared with that on the plot but at home it amounted to 4.2mm (0.17in) with the fastest rain falling at 45.4mm/hr (1.79in/hr) the highest rainfall rate this year. At that rate it's probably as well it didn't last too long. The months total rainfall is now 5.6mm which is still the driest June I've recorded at this stage of the month.
It was just as well that I didn't leave picking our strawberries until the last job of the day. I finished picking these as the first few drops of rain began to fall.
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| Strawberries - "Cupid" & "Cambridge Favourite" |
Any rain is better than no rain at all for the garden and plot but yesterday's downpour won't have been enough to convert our hard compacted ground into more workable soil.
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Some serious rain at last. You must be delighted, as we are here in Edinburgh where the situation has been parallel but not as extreme.
ReplyDeleteBetter than nothing and it saved watering but more gale force winds and sunshine on Monday have dried everything out again. Looks mostly dry for rest of the month.
DeleteThank you for sharing nice strawberries and blessings to you both
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