Water, water everywhere (I wish)

[Monika]

I don't know if anybody else keeps a weather station (very amateurish in my case), but here are my rain gauge readings for this year:
January 75.5mm
February 280.5mm
March 65mm
April 14.5mm
May 10.7mm
It would be interesting to compare it with rainfall in other parts of the country.

[Weird Heather]

Wish it would rain some more at moment, getting fed up of hefting watering cans about the place every couple of days. Sorry I don’t have any stats to add to yours, but I’m in West Yorkshire so I’d imagine it’d be similar to yours anyway.

[Stephen]

I plan to get a rain gauge. I should also keep a weather diary, I started this year but have been negligent, possibly because the weather has been so unvarying (if glorious in one way).

[Westi]

We need rain, proper rain, things just tick over with a water no matter how much we keep them damp! They need the pure stuff, not our treated stuff! Even better give me a proper thunder storm! Everything just responds better with an electric charge - I'm not included in that!

[Geoff]

Slightly different further West
January 135.9
February 333.3
March 103.6
April 17.3
May 25.9

[vivienz]

We're due some rain on Wednesday - desperately hoping that we get a decent amount. I've got another new raised bed that is earmarked for my leeks. I will put them in tomorrow evening and then they can have a good watering in on Wednesday, along with everything else.

[Monika]

Interesting figures, Geoff. Yes, our son in Clapham, sort of between you and us in longitude, also had more rain than here, but strangely, a daughter in Harrogate, thus much further east, had some tremendous downpours in early May when we had not a drop. Hoping for Wednesday now ......