If I had any doubts about the ground being too wet to dig over, rain on Friday and Saturday has put an end to them. It began raining on Friday lunchtime and it continued unbroken until the middle of Saturday afternoon.
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| Temperature & Rainfall Records 25-27 October 2019 |
Friday's rainfall amounted to 25.8mm (1.02in) making it the tenth wettest day I've recorded over the last 10 years.
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| Top Twenty Wettest Days 2010 - 2019 |
After Friday's rainfall October becomes the wettest October I've recorded and a further 14.6mm (1.59in) on Saturday before the rain eventually stopped was enough to move it into third spot in the table of wettest months.
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| Wettest Months 2010-2019 |
The daytime temperature on Saturday only made it up to 6.7°C (44.1°F), the equal lowest for October since 2010, tying with 27 October 2018.
It's difficult to believe now but three quarters of the way through September the ground at the allotment was too dry to dig over. Since then we've had 182.2mm (7.2in) of rainfall and the ground has gone from too dry to waterlogged in a little over 4 weeks. I've a feeling the ground won't really dry out until spring making for an extremely busy spring next year, weather permitting of course.
Before the last bout of rain I managed to make this birds' eye view of our plots.
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I think we ought to speak to the weather gods to mix things up a bit. You have too much rain and I have too little.
ReplyDeleteYou can gladly have some of our rain. We could do a swap for a little bit of warm too. Our car was white over with frost this morning! It's been a cold and wet October for us.
DeleteLoved the video and the music! Everything is so so green except the four berry(?) bushes and the pumpkins. How nice and peaceful it all is.
ReplyDeleteThe berry bushes are all blueberries which are in their full autumn glory. I had to watch the video again as we don't have any pumpkins, our winter squashes were harvested a few weeks ago, when some cold nights were forecast. I spotted the pumpkins but they are on our next door neighbours plot. I haven't worked out how to show the limits of our plot on a video yet.
DeleteVery "space age"!
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't that high up!
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