What's the weather like at the moment?

Most of the UK has had a very dry March, I must admit I hadn't noticed as the lawns were still saturated from our normal autumn and winter! But as that's gone into April and with the mild, sunny and dry weather it's now noticable just how dry the lawns and flowerbeds are. Due to continue for a few days and then, of course, just as the Easter hols approach it's back to normal!

Also must be noted that every cricket game last week (hey, each one lasts four days!) there wasn't one single weather interruption. Bit like 2020 except there was no cricket due to covid.

As an aside, my regular blackbird visitor helpe himself to a bath in a tub where rainwater gathers. As it dried I replaced the rainwater with tap water and he won't go near it now. Too many chemicals in our water??:?:

Anyhow, here's the met office map, and I wonder if the Spanish AEMET produce similar monthly summaries? The browner it is, the more drier than normal it was.


 

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2H76 said:
Most of the UK has had a very dry March, I must admit I hadn't noticed
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I know this is about Ibiza, but yeah the dry weather system we have right now in London is insane. Not sure ever known 14+ days of continual sunny and really really dry air - mornings 4c and days up to 19/20c.

But I am sure normality will return...
 
2H76 said:
Most of the UK has had a very dry March, I must admit I hadn't noticed as the lawns were still saturated from our normal autumn and winter! But as that's gone into April and with the mild, sunny and dry weather it's now noticable just how dry the lawns and flowerbeds are. Due to continue for a few days and then, of course, just as the Easter hols approach it's back to normal!

Also must be noted that every cricket game last week (hey, each one lasts four days!) there wasn't one single weather interruption. Bit like 2020 except there was no cricket due to covid.

As an aside, my regular blackbird visitor helpe himself to a bath in a tub where rainwater gathers. As it dried I replaced the rainwater with tap water and he won't go near it now. Too many chemicals in our water??:?:

Anyhow, here's the met office map, and I wonder if the Spanish AEMET produce similar monthly summaries? The browner it is, the more drier than normal it was.


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give it a couple days sure he will be back enjoying a nice bath, new stuff/changes seem to spook them.
 
mr_why said:
I know this is about Ibiza, but yeah the dry weather system we have right now in London is insane. Not sure ever known 14+ days of continual sunny and really really dry air - mornings 4c and days up to 19/20c.

But I am sure normality will return...
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We probably didn't notice it at the time as we were all stuck indoors, but we had a long spell like this in 2020 - the covid spring! As it happens for most of the UK spring is the driest season - so this current spell shouldn't be a surprise!

here's the graph for Manchester although it could be most locations in the country;

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Of course we should compare it with Ibiza; no surprise summer is dry and autumn (relatively) wet.

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feynman said:
The Manchester Graph is maybe not correct. Maybe they mean the daily rainfall.
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"sliding 31 day period" so the answer is yes and no! Simple block graphs don't really tell the story of a month as, for example, May starts drier than the end (on average). The way the graphs are constructed above shows that. But you are correct, it is based primarily on daily rainfall.
 
2H76 said:
"sliding 31 day period" so the answer is yes and no! Simple block graphs don't really tell the story of a month as, for example, May starts drier than the end (on average). The way the graphs are constructed above shows that. But you are correct, it is based primarily on daily rainfall.
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Bad joke from me. I meant montly rainfall is 30 times hiher as the shown.
 
diver said:
it may not rain anytime soon, i’ve just swapped water rates to a water meter 😂
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Kiddies' swimming pool, to collect when it rains! Might be doing that here if those water charges double as threatened!! (Pity we can't collect solar power in a bath to use over the winter...)
 
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