Still no rain

[cleo]

In all my years gardening I have never had to put on the sprinkler in October until today-  the drought continues.

The shape of things to come??

[cleo]

[thifasmom]

ditto here can't even remember when last it rained. great weather for me but really hard on the garden :-\.

[Stevens706]

Had some in Preston yesterday and it is forecast for tomorrow

[charlie888]

I can't remember the last time we had any proper rain in Leeds, we've had the occasional bit of drizzle in the wind but nothing that would actually soak the earth and watering the garden on a cold autumn evening isn't much fun! 

[Digeroo]

Very dry indeed here. 

Sowed some carrots at the end of the second week of August and they have never seen the rain. 

Had a teaspoonful of wet here the other day. 

[1066]

Its been very dry here too, I'm still having to water the plants in pots in the garden!

[cornykev]

Being a bit of a saddo, I jot down the weather at the bottom of my diary each day,  :P  on the 1st and 2nd of Sep we had a few showers and up until now we have only had one day of rain in a month.   :o     ;D ;D ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

The stream at the bottom of my plot has dried up.

[tricia]

A sharp shower on 1st September, lovely steady rain from noon till 7pm on the 2nd but since then - not a drop and all but one of my 6 water butts are empty. Even the scattered showers forecast for Saturday will not be enough to keep my celeriac happy. Hey ho - it looks like I'll soon have to use expensive tap water.

I, too, keep a record of the weather here in Torbay. It is often quite different to other parts of the country.

Tricia

[caroline7758]

My two main water butts are empty. :( We have a couple of mm forecast for tomorrow but that won't make much difference.

[amphibian]

Out of rain water, grass hasn't be mown since June and is now white, soil is bone dry a whole spit down. They keep saying it will rain in a few days and then as the day arrives the rain slides a few days further off.

[grawrc]

We have had what looks like a respectable quantity of rain overnight but not raining now although it is heavily overcast and the air is full of humidity.

[jaggythistle]

We have had what looks like a respectable quantity of rain overnight but not raining now although it is heavily overcast and the air is full of humidity.

  And 12 miles south from Grawrc ....... its cats and dogs  ::) ::)

[Robert_Brenchley]

The very occasional minute drop of liquid floated in the damp air this afternoon. Anyone know any good rain dances?

[flossy]

   All we need is a few umbrellas,  some nice deep gutters and Gene Kelly,   ;D

[GRACELAND]

windy with light rain tomorrow

[cornykev]

By the end of this month you'll all be moaning that the soil is unworkable, and the thread will read when will this rain stop.  :P      :'(         ;D ;D ;D

[GRACELAND]

The Soil on my plot is Dry Water butts are dry No Taps on our plot so we can only use what what can carry up there !

Winter digging soon so hope it don't get to wet otherwise mine will flood !!  :o

[artichoke]

Tried to dig out trench for new raspberry canes, but could not hammer spade in. Dry for WEEKS. East Sussex.

[Trevor_D]

Being a bit of a saddo, I jot down the weather at the bottom of my diary each day, 

That's not sad, Kev, that's normal. I've done it for years. One of the "old boys" on our site has weather records going back to when he de-mobbed in 1946. (Which way the wind was blowing, too!)