The lovely hot summer weather has continued this week although it was much cloudier on Monday and Tuesday. At the plot on Tuesday afternoon the cloud was thick enough to produce the lightest of drizzly rain.
The rain certainly wasn't enough to disturb my weather station rainfall gauge which remains firmly stuck on 2.8mm or 0.11in for this month's rainfall. That's the negative side of the hot summer as the almost complete lack of rainfall has meant lots of time spent watering the allotment.
The forecast for the next couple of days is for some extremely hot weather before we get a much cooler spell over the weekend and into the early part of next week. Along with the forecast of hot weather comes the risk of thunderstorms and consequently lots of rain. The hot sunny weather of the next few days might be the hottest weather we've had since I set up my weather station a little over eight years ago. The highest temperature I've recorded was 33.1°C (91.6°F) on 01 July 2015.
The tendency this year is for us to miss the thunderstorms and any rain. Will it be rain or heat this time?
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Here's hoping for a decent amount of rain - just not all at once!
ReplyDeleteBit of a thunderstorm early evening on Thursday. Not much rain though just 0.8mm. It didn't last long! Friday morning has started off on the cloudy side.
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