Goodness, we have some proper rain at last!

For the neighbours who think I am quite batty, their opinion is confirmed as they see me watering the garden in the rain!! Well if they confirm rain is coming I go out early and do it. When the ground is so dry, all the much needed rain can just run away across the top. If you water the borders etc a bit, it breaks down that dry crust and the rain can go in where it is much needed. I do have some washing that wants drying but never mind, lets have the much needed rain to really soak into the soil and give all the plants and especially the trees that have been struggling, some much needed water. Lets get those water butts filled up.

I don't think we need any more until Autumn here in the N.E.!

No rain here. The weather app has just told me it will stop in an hour - that would be good if it had started. There’s time yet and it may be a case of be careful what you wish for!

We had rain during the night. Some light showers through the morning and disappeared early afternoon. Forecast was for rain all day. The sun came out and was a lovely afternoon.

We don’t get our fair share here in Essex. 😢

Got wet going to work today but for once didn’t mind, it’s cooled it down a treat.😃

Here we have had minimal rain since March began. Every time rain is forecast we get a brief light shower or nothing at all. The threatened thunderstorms will also miss us as it rarely thunders here.
We have the expected watering ban starting on Tuesday and Facebook is full of indignant fools saying they’ve paid for water and Thames Water is appalling so they will ignore the ban. Meanwhile our precious chalk stream is running dry.
I can’t carry cans of water around my garden so am praying for heavy rain for the next three months.

Had a lovely downpour last night here in NW Surrey and it carried on raining reasonably well all morning. So lovely to have some rain at last, can't remember the last time we had some. More tonight hopefully. And even more hopefully more on Monday.

Our gardens look like deserts so maybe they will green up a bit now.

We had some overnight, but nothing like enough.

No rain here in my part of Dorset for weeks, some is promised this evening though.

We chose this Spring to plant up new flower beds, not our best idea its been a problem keeping things alive. Lets hope the forecast is right tonight.

I hope they have good weather insurance, Luckygirl!

I took myself to the local garden centre this afternoon. By the time I walked there and back in my raincoat I felt as though I’d had a sauna. . It’s steady rain now and looks like a November afternoon, though much warmer. The garden will be very happy, though.

We have had just a few drops, we really need a good downpour.

It rained almost all day yesterday (Nottingham) and part of today. It's still muggy, though.

That’s the word SueDonim, thank you 😁.

We got another shower just after I had hung out my washing, of course, about an hour ago. It looked promising, big juicy drops, but petered out after a couple of minutes. Mind you, we got as much in those minutes as in a couple of hours previously.

Our rain currently occurs the minute we take our dog for a walk.
Early morning trot-light shower as we set off, developing into a downpour as we reached the fields.
Sainsbury’s? Dry
Lunchtime promenade - drizzle once we were away from the house.
Library, Curry’s, Gym, no rain. We usually do a walk about 7 o’clock, but right now it’s fine. I wonder, should we change our habit?

My favourite type of rain, rain over night brilliant sunshine now.

Online bbc weather says rain all week in london.

It rained overnight, I know because the balcony was wet when I got up, but it’s not too bad now. It’s cloudy though so we might be in for more. My family will be pleased if we do get more as they have gardens. I only have a pot of lavender and I can cope with that myself!

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Can anyone hear the sound of marching feet?

Millions of slugs and snails.

Thank goodness I live on the 8th floor of an apartment block. Spiders would have to be Superman to get up here (I haven’t seen any so far, anyway!). I hate slugs, snails and spiders, all of which visited me in abundance at my previous houses, and I don’t get any of them here! It’s worth the exorbitant maintenance charge and the useless ‘management’ company (a misnomer if ever there was one!) just to have this lovely view and freedom from unwanted pests.

Bit of drizzle here in Durham. Nothing to get excited about. Muggy and very warm.

A bit of a drizzle here this morning but nothing since.Still humid and muggy as I prepare to go off to work now.😠

I'm OK - I am in the white band!

Here's a thing - my DD and SIL make their living organizing outdoor orchestral concerts with fireworks etc. and a folk festival. Both these are this weekend and are right in the firing line of the storms- a year's work and vast expenditure blown away!

And another of my DDs works for them - so that's 2 DDs getting drowned this weekend!

Still nothing here in our bit of Dorset, half a dozen spots earlier. Light shower a couple days ago, dried nearly as soon as it hit the ground, and one lot during the night a couple days earlier is all we have had for some time.
The flower beds have big cracks and plants are going over very quickly.
The forecast says more tomorrow for the SW.

Petrichor is the word, I think, Ziplock.

We’ve had about an hour’s rain this morning (Scotland). It was heavy and it looks as though there’s more to come. Over the past two weeks we’ve had enough rain that I’ve only had to water the garden a couple of times. I’ve a few plants I want to put in so to have some proper rain will set them up well.