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Pissing it down here on the East Midlands/South Yorkshire boarder.
Pouring down in North Yorkshire ... and looks like it has most of the night
My Allotment will be pleased
Weird thing round here is everything’s dry but tge chalk streams are still almost bursting banks
That is normal for chalk areas. I can't remember the exact reason but its something like the majority of water gets absorbed quickly do very little run off. It then takes an age to percolate through. I think in some areas you also get really weird situations where there is a hydraulic connection below ground to entirely different catchments.
So basically the peak flow after rain can be delayed by what seems like an unfeasibly long time.
That is normal for chalk areas. I can’t remember the exact reason but its something like the majority of water gets absorbed quickly do very little run off. It then takes an age to percolate through. I think in some areas you also get really weird situations where there is a hydraulic connection below ground to entirely different catchments.
So basically the peak flow after rain can be delayed by what seems like an unfeasibly long time.
I was thinking this, usually at this time of year our local ones are a trickle at best, all that rain in Feb still having an effect though.
I’m still grumpy today
*shakes fist at weather gods*
A light sprinkling here in East Devon.
Just means the dust will have patted down a bit for tomorrow. Noice 🙂
Nice one OP 😂
ffs wet all week now.
Despite me posting a "Dust" photo from yesterday ride at Woburn,it's done no more than really gently mist down today, enough to lay the fine dust and that's it. We could do with a decent couple of days rain tbh.....
Drizzled a bit today, made the patio and garden a bit damp. Didn’t bother to water the garden, though.
4mm in our rain gauge here near Derby
This time next week we'll all be sick of the moistness
Yep, I hold my hands up, I made the rain today.
Caher - reading your post I'm unclear about whether your mates are vast and own gardens or they own vast gardens or are vast and own vast gardens.
Whatever....here comes the rain again.
Errr yes.
My mates are 80s builders who bought at the right time so have vast gardens in their vast house. South East.
Cats & Dogs in N London now 🙁
Thunder & lightning in Manchestershire.
I left a glass out on the patio during our rainy Wednesday in Cardiff and it accumulated about 10mm of water which would seem to be useful. Then some animal tried to drink it overnight and knocked it off the table.
Oscilating between bucketing it down and glorious sunshine here, I can almost hear the plants growing.