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No Name 04-08-2010 02:32 PM

Lots of rain!
 
It would appear we are getting the missing "June and July" rain today.

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Sue[_9_] 04-08-2010 05:22 PM

Lots of rain!
 

wrote
It would appear we are getting the missing "June and July" rain today.


We've barely had a sprinkling here, so far. :(

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Sue


No Name 04-08-2010 05:38 PM

Lots of rain!
 
Sue wrote:
It would appear we are getting the missing "June and July" rain today.

We've barely had a sprinkling here, so far. :(


Where's that? In London we had a single flash of lightning and a short
downpour, but at home (Essex) apparently it was quite torential!

Sue[_9_] 04-08-2010 06:01 PM

Lots of rain!
 

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We've barely had a sprinkling here, so far. :(


Where's that? In London we had a single flash of lightning and a
short downpour, but at home (Essex) apparently it was quite torential!


SW Norfolk. I dug up a few potatoes about an hour ago and the soil was
still dry as dust underneath.

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Sue


David in Normandy[_8_] 04-08-2010 07:03 PM

Lots of rain!
 
On 04/08/2010 15:32, wrote:
It would appear we are getting the missing "June and July" rain today.


Only 3 mm here. :-(

Still in drought conditions.

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alan.holmes 04-08-2010 08:50 PM

Lots of rain!
 

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It would appear we are getting the missing "June and July" rain today.


About ten minutes worth here in Windsor!

Alan



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Emery Davis[_3_] 04-08-2010 10:37 PM

Lots of rain!
 
On 08/04/2010 08:03 PM, David in Normandy wrote:
On 04/08/2010 15:32, wrote:
It would appear we are getting the missing "June and July" rain today.


Only 3 mm here. :-(

Still in drought conditions.


You said it. A couple of drops, but soil is dry as dry.

-E

David in Normandy[_8_] 04-08-2010 10:43 PM

Lots of rain!
 
On 04/08/2010 23:37, Emery Davis wrote:
On 08/04/2010 08:03 PM, David in Normandy wrote:
On 04/08/2010 15:32, wrote:
It would appear we are getting the missing "June and July" rain today.


Only 3 mm here. :-(

Still in drought conditions.


You said it. A couple of drops, but soil is dry as dry.

-E


I keep seeing rain on the TV forecasts for here but it keeps missing and
going either side. Unless there is some serious rain soon I think the
farmers are going to be struggling with their crops. My veg plot would
have been dead this year had it not been for pumping water from the well
now and then to keep it alive.

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Emery Davis[_3_] 05-08-2010 08:54 AM

Lots of rain!
 
On 08/04/2010 11:43 PM, David in Normandy wrote:
On 04/08/2010 23:37, Emery Davis wrote:
On 08/04/2010 08:03 PM, David in Normandy wrote:
On 04/08/2010 15:32, wrote:
It would appear we are getting the missing "June and July" rain today.


Only 3 mm here. :-(

Still in drought conditions.


You said it. A couple of drops, but soil is dry as dry.

-E


I keep seeing rain on the TV forecasts for here but it keeps missing and


Part of the problem is there's never anything forecast beyond "rares
averses" which as you say misses. Where are the big rain storms from
the Atlantic? We've gotten some westerly winds, finally...

going either side. Unless there is some serious rain soon I think the
farmers are going to be struggling with their crops. My veg plot would


The farmers I talk to here south of you are cooked for this year. No
corn. The wheat is not high enough for the harvesters to cut -- and
it's pretty hard to feel sorry for a French wheat farmer, let me tell
you! (They'll get the losses back from the government or Europe).

have been dead this year had it not been for pumping water from the well
now and then to keep it alive.


Just got the garden pump back from the shop, it had blown a condenser.
But the well is dry, no help there. :( We've also got town water, I
notice that the pressure is low and there's a lot of air in the pipes.
I've had to water some shrubs and trees just to keep them alive, though.

-E


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