Weather
- Thread starter Charlie
- Start date
- Location
- Isle of Man
Drizzle and damp today. Well it is the first week of the Manx Grand Prix, it was bound to be wet 
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
I let Joy out into the garden thismorning and found two leaves on the table, 'Proving that Autumn gropes for us', as Elizabeth Jennings wrote.
Back to bed with a pot of tea!
Back to bed with a pot of tea!
- Location
- Isle of Man
We had Proper Rain yesterday. Everywhere feels so clean now. Fresh.
Atemas
UK Tour Guide
- Location
- North Cambridgeshire
We had proper rain during the night - unfortunately our back lawn won’t recover from the heat but pleased the suffering plants, bushes and trees have had some water
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
Still non of the promised rain here
- Location
- Isle of Man
Ah, our "lawn" is OK. There are brown spots, but that's Dog wee, otherwise it's lush and requiring cutting every week. It's getting plenty of dew in the mornings, I go out in bare feet and the grass is sopping.
Jacqui-S
Moderator
- Location
- Fife, Scotland
We've had some decent rain, grass looking better, but still not enough for farmers
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
None for us as yet...
Atemas
UK Tour Guide
- Location
- North Cambridgeshire
A little bit more rain during the night and some forecast for tomorrow. Too late for the lawn and not sure what we are going to do about that. Front lawn will recover I think. Hanging baskets are over now as hosepipe ban and south facing sun finished them off. Ironically the trees have grown massively over the dry months and we have tree surgeons coming later in the year - we are in a conservation area so have to have permission to reduce their height - it’s taking time!!!
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
We had a sprinkle during the night, but non of the promised earlier.
Cath
MLF Sales Coordinator
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
Us too! Then sun for most of the day. Perfect weather conditions, for once!We did in the night
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
At last here it is - proper rain for us !
All last week the "hit and miss" showers missed this area spectacularly.
All last week the "hit and miss" showers missed this area spectacularly.
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
Not often that we get so excited about rain in the UK! 'The times, they are a-changeing' as Mr Dylan would say.
It’s reminded me of this poem by Christopher Fry. I think we had to recite it at school - many hears ago! I could just about remember part of the first verse!
That is rain on dry ground. We heard it:
We saw the little tempest in the ground,
The panic of anticipation: heard
The uneasy leaves flutter, The air pass
In a wave, the fluster of the vegetation:
Head the first spatter of drops, the outriders
Larruping on the road, hitting against
The gate of the drought, and shattering
On to the lances of the tottering meadow
It is rain; It is rain on dry ground.
Rain riding suddenly out of the air
Battering the bare walls of the sun.
It is falling on the lounge of the blackbird,
Into the heart of the thrush ; the dazed valley
Sings it down. Rain, rain on dry ground!
This the urgent decision of the day,
The urgent drubbing of earth ,The urgent raid
On the dust ; downpour over the flaring poppy,
Deluge on the face of noon, the flagellent
Rain drenching across the air.- The day
Flows in the ditch ; bubble and twisting twig
And the sudden morning swirl along together
Under the crying hedge.And where the sun
Ran on the scythes, the rain runs down
The obliterated field ,the blunted crop.
The air is sprung with green.
The intercepted drops
Fall at their leisure; and between
The threading runnels on the slopes
The snail drags his caution into the sun.
That is rain on dry ground. We heard it:
We saw the little tempest in the ground,
The panic of anticipation: heard
The uneasy leaves flutter, The air pass
In a wave, the fluster of the vegetation:
Head the first spatter of drops, the outriders
Larruping on the road, hitting against
The gate of the drought, and shattering
On to the lances of the tottering meadow
It is rain; It is rain on dry ground.
Rain riding suddenly out of the air
Battering the bare walls of the sun.
It is falling on the lounge of the blackbird,
Into the heart of the thrush ; the dazed valley
Sings it down. Rain, rain on dry ground!
This the urgent decision of the day,
The urgent drubbing of earth ,The urgent raid
On the dust ; downpour over the flaring poppy,
Deluge on the face of noon, the flagellent
Rain drenching across the air.- The day
Flows in the ditch ; bubble and twisting twig
And the sudden morning swirl along together
Under the crying hedge.And where the sun
Ran on the scythes, the rain runs down
The obliterated field ,the blunted crop.
The air is sprung with green.
The intercepted drops
Fall at their leisure; and between
The threading runnels on the slopes
The snail drags his caution into the sun.
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
That's beautiful. I don't remember reading anything by Christopher Fry before. I shall have to look him up.
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
That's great @Granca xx
Climate change was yet to come.
I do remember the end of 1976 drought, we were all outside dancing in the rain
Climate change was yet to come.