Weather 2008

[mark smyth]

If only David! Weather forecast wrong again. Right now, 2pm, it's 22c, overcast but very bright and 1mil of rain so far

[David Nicholson]

It's just the same here and we were promised rain too.

[Diane Clement]

The weather forecast is spot on today with rain all day - NOT!

I think we got yours, heavy rain most of the morning and early afternoon. 

[Michael J Campbell]

Beautiful day here,sunshine and 18c

[mark smyth]

Sister in law's car showed 24c in Belfast today. 21 here at work. Due to lack of rain and neglect by me some of my plants have died - A. trulifolia, Dicentra cuccularia, Dianthus bought at the show .... Tulips are drying on their stems. All clusianas have dropped their petals.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

24°C today - and plenty of water in the ground after lots of rain last week, result : everything growing like mad !

[David Nicholson]

You beat me by 1 degree Luc, hottest day of the year so far, and busy decorating my daughter's bedroom (Dads come in handy some times!) so didn't get in the garden all day.

[mark smyth]

This Saturday will make 5 weeks without rain. It's good in a way that we are having this fantastic weather. We are usually jealous of England having great weather while we drown. The mil that fell at the weekend has now dried in the rain guage.

This is the kind of thing that is happening to my plants.

[mark smyth]

Today we are into the 6th week without rain. Well, 1ml fell yesterday and 1ml at the start of the week.

It's 9.08am and the temperature is already 20c

[David Nicholson]

Haven't done much in the garden this past week as my daughter has been making use of my painting and decorating skills! When I left her house this afternoon at 1630 the car thermometer was showing 28C. Now I have ro rush around for the next few days doing all the hot weather preparation I should have been doing this week-shade paint on the greenhouse, watering inside and out etc etc etc.

[mark smyth]

Here's another casualty of the drought. All my bracteate bluebells look like this. I did get 10 days out of them

[David Nicholson]

Finally managed to get much needed shade paint on the greenhouse today. This is a sure sign that the weather will change and we will losse the sun for the next forty days at least!

[Maggi Young]

Finally managed to get much needed shade paint on the greenhouse today. This is a sure sign that the weather will change and we will losse the sun for the next forty days at least!

You had better be wrong about that, David... it's the Aberdeen Show this Saturday and a wet day will kybosh the visitor numbers!

[mark smyth]

Rain is forecast only for the south west

[David Nicholson]

It usually is!