Weather

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Quite breezy out here too - 37th consecutive day without rain...   Record from 1857 broken... 

Rain is forecasted for tomorrow though !!!!!    Let's hope for the best.

[derekb]

Hi Luc,
   You have beaten me my last rain was 30th March they keep saying tomorrow but it goes everywhere but here,have to have a page on here for Cacti.
Derek

[TC]

Back to winter today.  After a sunny day in Glasgow yesterday, the rain started at 10 pm last night until 10 am this morning.  I spent the morning in the greenhouse potting up plants for our local Ayr group plant sale on Wednesday.  Why is it that all your plants are either over or yet to flower at sale time !   This afternoon we went to Bargany Gardens near Girvan, to see the blossom on their Cherry tree archway.  We did.  It was lying on the ground under the trees thanks to a near gale.  We spent a good 15 minutes sheltering in a fancy woodland gazebo before the rain finally relented.  Then it was off, by car, to the walled garden for a look at the 100 yard long azalea bed before the rain hit us again.  Temperature today was 9c.  After all, it is the Bank Holiday weekend.

[Maggi Young]

Some clouds around earlier which might have some rain in them, but passing too fast to drop it, so far. Very gusty winds... look at this poor tree peony wich is being blown at right angles, westwards...


This is what the flower looks like, it is a seedling from an "almost rockii!!" Flower is 24 cms across !

[Maggi Young]

Local difficulties with uploading photos has been attended to by Fast Fred the Webmaster  so those of you having trouble earlier should be able to post away to your heart's content now... I just managed to upload two without a problem.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 

Hurray !
It's raining !
(not often I use this phrase...  )

[Anthony Darby]

The Aussies usually celebrate the rains breaking with a beer Luc. This year, unusually, I felt like doing it when it started raining on Saturday night, but I would have had to stop first as I was at a 50th birthday party. Cheers Anthony.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Well that must have been a dilemma Anthony... stopping and starting alover again     I do love the Aussie habits though !
As for me - this is not a bank holliday out here - I'm at the office  and no beer around....

[Maggi Young]

No rain here in Aberdeen.... a day of watering ahead and still lots of wind to dry everything up again.

[David Nicholson]

Typical British Bank Holiday weather here today. South Westerly gale, grey skies and rain.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Who talked about global warming ?

[derekb]

Luc,
     Did you have much rain? here we had the first since March tha leaves got wet and dust as well but I left a bucket out there was not enough in it to measure so back to the Rain Dance tomorrow.
 Derek

[Anthony Darby]

We had some torrential downpours, both yesterday and today, and yesterday even a hail storm which wrecked my Trillium grandiflorum flowers.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

We had lots of wind Derek - an occasional shower of a few minutes but nothing substantial so far.
I just made a little hole in the ground - the moisture has reached a depth of 0,5 cm (hurray) after that plain sand again.  More rain is forecasted for tomorrow (and more wind... sigh) - we keep our fingers crossed.

[Carol Shaw]

We've had a few light showers overnight but nothing like enough to actually do any good. Thankfully the wind has dropped but I see lots of watering in the near future.