Rain was forecast for the middle of the afternoon but, to be honest, so much rain has been forecast only for it to remain dry nothing could be taken for certain. Our runner beans and climbing French beans were ready for planting out and so we decided we'd head off to the allotment and see what we could do before the forecast rain arrived. By the time we arrived there were a few spits and spots of rain falling already. We decided to carry on. By the time we'd erected the bamboo supports and got the last of the beans planted it had started to rain heavily.
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| Temperature & Rainfall Records 04 June 2019 |
It was a case of packing up quickly and heading for home. It was the first time in a long while we'd been rained off at the allotment.
At least our runner beans and climbing French beans had been planted out and watered in even though it was raining. By the end of the day the rainfall had amounted to 14.2mm (0.56in) the second wettest day of the year only topped by 16 March 2019 with 14.6mm or 0.57in. It was our heaviest rainfall of the year with an intensity of 39.8mm/hr (1.57in/hr) at 19:15. Interestingly it's already double the rainfall we had for the whole of June last year.
It should be enough to keep the plot watered for a while and with more heavy rain forecast for Friday it might be an end to our long spell of dry weather.
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Very happy for you! (16mm overnight in Edinburgh and probably the same again today.)
ReplyDeleteNo rain Wednesday but more forecast on Friday and Saturday for us. Hopefully, our watering cans can be put away for a few weeks.
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