On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:13:53 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

Lucky you! Dry as a bone down here. Hoping for some heavy downpours in
the next couple of days, but there's no guarantee.

Be better to get hours of gentle rain putting down the same amount of
water as a downpour does in 30 mins. A lot of the down pour will just
run off the hard, bone dry, ground. Gentle rain over an exteneded
period will tend to soak in far more.

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Cheers
Dave.