An unusual experience for NW Wales - to get up, look out and say "Diolch byth, mae'n bwrw glaw!" - Thank goodness, it's raining!
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Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
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Rain, i'm sure i have heard that word before, but it's been so long ago i've forgot what it is.
I think we are going to miss it yet again, i don't think we have had a drop all this month so far.
I think we are going to miss it yet again, i don't think we have had a drop all this month so far.
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I've just seen the weather on the BBC which announced that we had no chance of rain here until later tomorrow.
Simultaneously a few drops of rain hit the window and there is now a very fine drizzle coming down.
Simultaneously a few drops of rain hit the window and there is now a very fine drizzle coming down.
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I find Metcheck Weatherwatch far more accurate than BBC Gradening weather forecast.
Rain yesterday to the hour (!) when Metcheck said .. and they said very little. Amazingly good!
Rain yesterday to the hour (!) when Metcheck said .. and they said very little. Amazingly good!
From my visits to Wales, Alan, I seem to remember that your rain is a great deal 'wetter' than the stuff that the rest of us get!
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Useful Welsh phrase, John: Piso bwrw (or as you more polite Saxons would say "Raining jolly hard!"
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
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We are still basking in the warmth here.
All joking apart, if we miss this rain tonight, i don't think we are meant to be getting anymore for at least five days.
The grass is starting to die back in quite a few lawns already, and the soil is starting to split open.
Now how does that rain dance go that i used to do.
All joking apart, if we miss this rain tonight, i don't think we are meant to be getting anymore for at least five days.
The grass is starting to die back in quite a few lawns already, and the soil is starting to split open.
Now how does that rain dance go that i used to do.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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I'd forgotten "hen wragedd a ffyn"
Alan
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Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
This looks useful, can be used for various other phenomena.
Allan
Check the forecast rainfall on our new Map Presenter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/rain.shtml
Allan
Check the forecast rainfall on our new Map Presenter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/rain.shtml
Well I'm a few hundred miles East of all you but it's amazingly dry here also. Usually in March and sometimes early April we have about six foot of snow to melt which, even if there's no rain, is enough to keep the soil damp. Not this year 'tho.
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You lucky things, those who have had rain! To date, we have had 3mm of rain in the whole of April and it shows. Rain was forecast for today for the west of England, but we certainly didn't get any (and we are only just over an hour from the coast). I was hoeing this morning and there are still great clods of soil which have to be broken up with the hoe. I planted 64 broad beans 'Witkiem Manita' from rootrainers, so made the hole, filled it with water, planted the broad beans and watered them in again, almost like leeks! The forecast is for very light rain over night and then dry and sun again for the foreseeable future (on the MetOffice, Metcheck and BBC websites!).
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Here too Monika. I can't get a fork into my clay at all. It's baked hard with big cracks in. We have a little light rain forecast for tomorrow but after that back to warm and sunny. All my gardening time is spent watering. It was the same last year only the dry months were May and June.
The only advantage is that the weeds can't grow either!
The only advantage is that the weeds can't grow either!
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