It's Raining Rain, Hallelluia, It's raining Rain!

[Suky]

It started to drizzle a bit yesterday late morning and has built up to a good, steady, joined up, rain ever since! It's the first 'proper' rain for weeks and it's wonderful, even if I do have a flood outside the back door!

[roitelet]

Likewise here yesterday. Resisted the urge to dance in it but it was more than welcome, a whole 10mm in one go. Butts now full again and things look better already. Overcast today, are we going to get some more?

[Germinater]

Finally we have rain too . Must be literally about 6weeks since we last had a decent rain fall ..came home last night and didn't have to spend 40 mins watering everythIng ..wot bliss can't moan to much though this weather we've had must of put all the plants ahead by a month..my apple tree is maybe only a month or so off finishing fruiting .this time last year they were only just finishing blossoming and starting to set tiny fruit now when I look there about the size of a clementine so hay ho early cider making I think ..

[FionaH]

I know it's raining. We do need it desperately but couldn't it have held off till tomorrow? I have been at work in all this glorious sunshine and today is my day off........................

[rustylady]

It's here

[perkin]

It's fabulous! Everything is getting a real good soaking and my water butts are now topped back up again. Even the chickens seem to be enjoying the opportunity it provides for worm hunting.

[mrbadexample]

Here's one for those of you getting wet today then:

[coreopsis]

Gosh,how I wish I could turn the weather map around everytime I see the forecast.Except 2 days this week the temperature has been around 11-12˚C during the day and down to 6 in the morning.Raining every day.Wasn't able to cut the grass for the last 3 weeks,OH hacked it with a strimmer on Friday(too long for the mower).Not too mention that my beans are still waiting in the seed packet.June,eh?or still March?

[bronwen]

It started here yesterday too and went all night... and it's still drizzling now!
Everything needs it, but yesterday I was in the midst of rearranging all my containers/layout of the garden and ended up leaving everything all over the place as it started to rain too hard to stay out there! Then last night I remembered I had left a few plants on the ground that are normally on a table and had to run out to move them so they didn't get attacked by slugs or snails!!
Hard to believe just two days ago it was boiling hot (25 deg) and sunny!

[Suky]

I am truly sorry for those of you who have not had the weather and for whom it is still cold.
I can't stop gloating tho'. The well at the lottie is full again and everything has put on a burst of new growth. I would swear the sweetcorn is 6" taller

[Pies]

Finally a complete day of rain TFFT

[arpoet]

We have had some welcome showers on and off all afternoon.. I can stay in bed in the morning now and not go to lottie at 5am to water. Oh Bliss
Roger

[mothhawk]

It's not FAIR!!! I want some RAIN!!!

[richardbees]

Sorry Mothhawk but you get a lot morain than we do down in the SE

- I'm Balham SW London and we had over an inch!

Trouble is that all of a sudden weeds will appear!

[Creemteez]

Had about four "cloud-burst" type showers today which - if they had lasted longer than four or five minutes, would have made a real difference, but the fact that they were so short and were interspersed with brilliant, hot sunshine AND high winds, meant the ground dried within minutes - DAMMIT!!!!