Saturday 21 July 2018

Not a Record Dry Month

We visited the "Thirsk Birds of Prey Centre" on Friday and would you believe we left the centre early because it was raining.
We left in the middle of the afternoon as the rain fell steadily and it rained for most of the journey back home only drying up for the last few miles of our journey. It did manage to rain a little bit at home but only by the smallest margin my weather station records 0.2mm (0.01in) but it was enough to prevent this July from becoming the driest month I've recorded. Up until yesterday it was tying with April 2011 with 2.4mm or 0.09in.
Temperature & Rainfall Records July 2018
The cloud cover was heavy enough overnight to deposit another 0.2mm (0.01in) rocketing our month total up to 2.8mm or 0.11in. If you look closely enough at the chart above you can just make out that it "rained" on the  13th and 16th of the month but not the amount of the last couple of days. An average month's rainfall would be represented by a full height column of blue. 
Temperature & Rainfall Records 19 - 21 July 2018
By changing the rainfall scale it's possible to see that the rain fell at around 16:00 on Friday afternoon and 03:00 on Saturday morning.

I don't think it's going to have helped out with watering the allotment. Watering cans at the ready again today.

Posted by Martyn at 11:28

2 comments:

  1. Mal22 July 2018 at 08:51

    Have you watched "Ice Cold in Alex" recently?

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    1. Martyn25 July 2018 at 09:36

      No. Should I? Is it a gardening programme?

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