It was wet and rainy again on Tuesday but at least we avoided the heavy rain which struck a little further north resulting in severe flooding and major delays to road and rail networks.
It’s amazing how much rain we’ve had since Spring when the predictions were for lots of dry weather leading to devastating drought conditions. It started to rain and it’s continued to do so ever since those forecasts were made. Out of the last 6 months we’ve exceeded the expected rainfall in each month apart from May which was a pretty dry month. April, June and July all produced over twice our expected rainfall with August not far behind.
At the end of March the previous 12 months had produced only 393.5mm of rain against an expected amount of 651.5mm or 60% of our annual expected rainfall. Now almost at the end of September the previous 12 months have produced 793.7mm of rainfall or 122% of expected.
All this rainfall may impact pretty drastically on our allotment activities. Autumn and winter digging might have to be put on hold whilst the ground dries out something the plot is not good at in Autumn and Winter especially if this wet weather continues.
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All this rain and what's the betting that there's a hosepipe ban again next year?
ReplyDeleteLol. I wrote a great big comment and it dissapeared when I signed in. So, to write it all over again.
ReplyDeleteI liked the way it started raining as soon as the hose ban came in, and hasn't really stopped since. It has got cold these last few days and I'm hoping that the remander of my fruits ripen, I have lots of Butternut squash to come, I've never grown this before so I don't know how it will go. Maybe I need to start them off earlier than I did. I am going top try and get some clear plastic and put it over to see if I can raise the temp there to see if that helps.
Hi Jo
ReplyDeleteOnly if it does actually stop raining!
Hi Liz
We didn't even manage any squash plants let alone fruits so you've done better than us.