On 2013-05-10 11:23:44 +0100, Martin said:

On Fri, 10 May 2013 10:56:09 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2013 08:19:08 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Thu, 09 May 2013 09:47:55 +0100, David Hill
wrote:

Well the flowering cherry trees are at their best now in this area so
it's time for heavy rain and gales.
It seems to work every year.
David @ a very windy end of Swansea Bay

Gale, yes, but no rain to speak of. What little we had, more like
intermittent heavy driving drizzle, was traveling so fast horizontally
that the only time it seemed to reach the ground was when it hit a
vertical obstruction such as a wall and ran down! My rain gauge hasn't
registered anything this month, and it's sensitive to 0.01 inch (one
hundredth of an inch) of rain!

Correction. On inspecting the soil this morning, it was reasonably
damp right through, suggesting more rain than the gauge had indicated.
Investigating the gauge revealed a snail in the works, and the tipping
bucket mechanism wasn't tipping. Will have to give it a clean out to
remove the dross and snail crap.

We have had less than a millimetre so far this week.

Big clouds pass over without significant precipitation just like last
year

Half an inch fell here two nights ago and washed away dust. Everything
is sparklingly green again.
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Sacha
South Devon