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Allotment Stuff => The Basics => Topic started by: prink13 on July 26, 2006, 20:58:58
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Goodness we've had some rain at last, been raining here since 3:30, it's now coming up 9:00, we've had two torrential downpours, and 2 hailstorms, and I was out in alll of them!
I've 4 waterbutts at the moment, and they are all overflowing, but not much I can do, the garden is absolutely soaked and the ducks are swiming (without a pond) all this and the temperature is still about 25degrees!
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If you have any spare rain send it over here! ;D
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No, send it here; the thundertorms we were promised seem to have been another mirage.
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JEALOUS We have had about 6 spots!!!
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Could do with it here. Got two rumbles of thunder when I was at plot this morning (I cam home, I'm a coward), I was expecting storm with great downpou and got about half a dozen spots of rain.
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The Met Office site keeps promising us thunderstorms then taking them away. They're back up but I don't know how long for. Metcheck has a severe weather warning up, but we're not included.
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JEALOUS We have had about 6 spots!!!
We were promised much but once more it seems to have passed by.
According to IOW storm tracker (http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm) we're under a storm right now.
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JEALOUS We have had about 6 spots!!!
Even harder to bear cos I'm only half an hour away from your butts (so to speak) >:( :P
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We had a storm last night and some rain....i went to my allotment this morning and the top of the ground is wet but half an inch under is dry!
By the way, we had some of our plants pulled up and the tops chopped off last night (looks like kids were swinging sticks at the plants). Also someone had been in my shed but luckily i can't see anything taken.
The allotments metal waterbutt under the allotment tap has been stolen!
It makes me very angry!
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Torrential rain and storms last night and rain the night before. We are spoiled in Lincolnshire at the moment. Wet nights, hot sunny days. Wet sky at night, slugs delight though.
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I'm in lincolnshire too and but we have only had 2 sprinklings in the last 8 weeks until last night... was awakened by thunder and lightning and torrential rain.... it had all stopped by the time i got up at 8am but even now the ground is still wet so we obviously got LOADS of rain last night FINALLY!
I think my plants will be incredibly happy when i check them tomorrow!
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Last night was incredible. Got halfway to car with lottie strimming gear and noticed a whopping dark cloud and rumbles of thunder. Went back inside.
Five minutes later there were spots of rain. Hubby and I ran to get the laundry in, having just realised it was still out.
Five minutes after that it was like Niagara Falls. And I've seen them for real...
We had 28mm of rain in half an hour (not to mention a massive electrical display).
I'm glad I don't live in the valley area of town - they apparently had quite horrible flash flooding, poor things!
Forecast is another 20mm today, though I'll forgive Metcheck if it's wrong. I bet my poor sweetcorn is flattened!
moonbells
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Oh please let it be our turn soon! Ran home from the plot yesterday evening as the first big fat promising drops fell, but it was all over in 10 mins and the ground wasn't even properly wet
Then last night the whole sky was lit up with lightning for around half an hour around midnight, but not a drop fell.
It's just teasing us! :(
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I'm not very far away and we had some proper rain for a change but it was only for about 40 mins. The thunder started at about 1pm but the rain didn't arrive until 9pm. We had some impressive lightening with it during and after the rain. It's still not enough it hasn't made much improvement to the garden.
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The amazing bit about last night's rain was that all around us, folk didn't get a drop... My colleagues who live in the Hillingdon area got the thunder from all around them, but no rain. Aylesbury didn't seem to get rain either, according to another colleague. A friend in Bracknell was stunned by the storm they got, with more forked lightning than she'd seen for years.
So it must have been localised to the Chilterns and directly south of them.
moonbells
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>:(
Jealous Jealous Jealous
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Heard at lunch time we have storms heading up to the North East Coast. Would be lovely if it cleared the air, it has been so humid here the last week, and the lottie is desperate for some decent rain. :) busy_zlizzie
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The Met Office has given us a severe weather warning with up to 25mm of rain prophesied. For once, I want severity! Right now, it's cooler with a thin overcast.
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OK stop wishing for rain everyone... its about to chuck it down here and i have to drive a smartcar for 2 hours in this weather which will no doubt get much worse as soon as i turn the ignition on.
Also i have next week to myself and i wanted to get some lotty work done - so stop wishing for rain or i'll get washed out and have to find my wellies and WWG.
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Supersprout and all other A4A "dry" members hope the rain has now reached you. I am sure pring13 and I wouldn't gloat but we have had a little more rain this afternoon.. Did hear some more thunder but that has rummbled away. May the rain be with you!!!!
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Goodness we've had some rain at last, been raining here since 3:30, it's now coming up 9:00, we've had two torrential downpours, and 2 hailstorms, and I was out in alll of them!
I've 4 waterbutts at the moment, and they are all overflowing, but not much I can do, the garden is absolutely soaked and the ducks are swiming (without a pond) all this and the temperature is still about 25degrees!
Well, you did ask me to send you up some rain, Prink!! ::) It was a long while reaching you but that's Royal Mail for you. ;) Glad that your garden has had a good soak and that the ducks have been watered in. ;D
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We've had a lot of rain in Oxfordshire in the last week or so - amazingly - last week-end we had a full on tropical storm! - About 3 hours of torrential rain the like of which I've never seen - the first hour was accompanied by high winds that sent the sight screens at our cricket club cart-wheeling towards the M40! Within 10 minutes of the start of the rain the two pitches we have were under 2 inches of water!
Had more big rain a couple of nights ago - and the lotty is perking up nicely - sadly the weeds love it and they've suddenly started sprouting everywhere!
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Still no rain here in Dundee, which is unusual. According to various nice weather people I should be getting soaked about now and have lots of thunder. No sign of either, I was supposed to have some yestrday and the day before but it didn't happen.
I am beginning to think they are just lying to me now. I think i will have to go out and do my rain dance.
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Tell me when you're ready Vez1 ;D - I'm at the other end of our island in Torbay and we've seen no measurable rainfall since 25/26 June!! So I'll go out and do the rain dance too, if my creaking bones will let me :P
Tricia
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There are drops of wet stuff falling fromt he sky here, i am assuming this is what people call rain.Here's hoping it does more than tickle the ground.
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A few very short, sharp showers yesterday and this morning, but hardly enough to wet the paving, let alone the ground ::).
Tricia
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Still raining here in sunny Swansea and has been all day. Very windy with it.
It always does rain heavily after I've remembered to feed the outside toms or plant out some cuttings!
But it is also only 18 degrees.
Hope you all get more rain 'cos even my spuds don't want any more!
Jo
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It's been drizzling a fair bit today, and the stream is trickling a bit. But everything's still very parched, it'll take a lot mre than this to make any difference.
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Yaaaaay! Loadsa rain! Beans and spuds will be lovin it!
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We've had a decent downpour or 2 now also............typically happened when we were out and couldn't get to any shelter lol
Here's hoping that the grass on the paddocks starts to make a comeback now, there's 4 hungry horses and a goat who are sick of eating hay (and I'm sick of paying for it!)
Although they did manage to get into the allotment again a couple of days back and have eaten most of the veggies :(
:'( :'( :'(
Too late to start again this year so we'll have to be content with the beans they left and whatever we still have growing in the polytunnel.
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We were away last week but came home to stories of flash flooding, 'end-of-the-world-movie' skies and damp soil!! Hoorah!! A trip to the allotment yesterday found my water butt overflowing and the weeds just came up in my hand! Desperate to get back there this morning and carry on the good work but it is very windy at home which means it will be hurricane force up on the plot - will hang on for a bit. ::)
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For once, I'd find a flash flood a relief! It would keep my soil moist for several weeks to come. as it is, the stream runs on odd days, then dries up again. I suppose it's bringing the water table up, but everything's still dry at surface level. Soil is either like dust, where it was dug over last winter, or like concrete where it wasn't.
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For the past two days in the North East we have had torrential rain and gail force winds. All of our waterbutts are also brimming over. Yesterday, would you believe it was even really cold and we had to have our gasfire on in the evening. Despite a dull start today however, the skies have cleared and we now have brilliant sunshine and are back to summer weather. Everything at my plot is looking well drenched, so I expect it will look even more like a jungle in the next few days! :-\ busy_lizzie
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We had masses of rain here yesterday! Been to the plot today and the weeds have come out of the ground as if on springs! Beans happy, courgettes ecstatic, spuds looking much happier and me...hungry!!
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