Whats the weather like near you?

[Big J]

1 hour ago, Peasgood said:

Same here but a degree colder.

Are your forecasts reliable then because if that forecast was for here it would be raining on Monday and nonstop for a fortnight.

I'm not confident they can tell us what did happen with any accuracy never mind what will happen.

 

Fairly accurate, with the usual drifts in timescales and severity.

 

Being more of a continental climate, it's a lot less changeable and extreme. We genuinely haven't had a single storm over the whole of the winter season, and no wind speeds over 8 m/s sustained. Precipitation is much lower over winter than summer (56mm last month, as opposed to 182.6mm in Cullompton, where we used to live) and even though it can be quite cold (down to minus 22c this winter), it doesn't generally get in the way of getting outside. Total annual precipitation is 480-550mm, with about 100-125mm of that over winter falling as snow. Summer rain is usually short lived and heavy.

 

Still looking forward to spring though. I really love the routine of cycling to work and stopping for a swim 1200m before I get there at the lake. The lake only lost it's ice this week. I might start next week - there are changing rooms and a nice jetty.

[Whoppa Choppa]

Way way way beyond a joke now. I actually can't find the words. Incessant rain for what feels like months and February the icing on the cake. And so it goes on into March. Something is very badly wrong. Please don't just say CC. 

 

I'm going to need counselling after this. Four times the normal amount of rainfall apparently last month.

Edited March 2 by Whoppa Choppa

[Botty Cough]

11 minutes ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

Way way way beyond a joke now. I actually can't find the words. Incessant rain for what feels like months and February the icing on the cake. And so it goes on into March. Something is very badly wrong. Please don't just say CC. 

 

I'm going to need counselling after this. Four times the normal amount of rainfall apparently last month.

You still need a good was tho....😂

 

Been sunny here today. Jetwashed the laundry patio and the car driveway so my sandy paving looks good IN THE SUNSHINE...😁

[Squaredy]

This was a surprise when I got to work this morning.

Edited March 2 by Squaredy

[Big J]

1 hour ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

Way way way beyond a joke now. I actually can't find the words. Incessant rain for what feels like months and February the icing on the cake. And so it goes on into March. Something is very badly wrong. Please don't just say CC. 

 

I'm going to need counselling after this. Four times the normal amount of rainfall apparently last month.

 

That's honestly how I felt after the winter 19/20. Trying to run harvesting sites through constant rain on Devon red clay and Somerset green clay was almost impossible. It started raining on (if memory serves) the 7th or 8th of September and didn't stop until the third week of March 2020. Longest dry period in that time was 3 days and my fairly crude measurements at the house indicated an average of nearly 200mm a month. We had to shut our site down for three weeks in February due to waves of liquid mud sloshing around the site. 

 

People complain about the rain here sometimes, but they've got no idea! 😄

 

All I can suggest is either find another line of work where the weather doesn't play such a large part or emigrate to somewhere with a better climate. 

 

No doubt it'll just stop raining at some point in March and by the end of May the farmers will be crying out for rain.

 

Interestingly, a great many fields here are irrigated as a matter of course. There is just the assumption that there will be the need for watering, and infrastructure is in place in the fields to provide it. I don't recall it being commonplace in the UK

[Botty Cough]

11 minutes ago, Big J said:

 

That's honestly how I felt after the winter 19/20. Trying to run harvesting sites through constant rain on Devon red clay and Somerset green clay was almost impossible. It started raining on (if memory serves) the 7th or 8th of September and didn't stop until the third week of March 2020. Longest dry period in that time was 3 days and my fairly crude measurements at the house indicated an average of nearly 200mm a month. We had to shut our site down for three weeks in February due to waves of liquid mud sloshing around the site. 

 

People complain about the rain here sometimes, but they've got no idea! 😄

 

All I can suggest is either find another line of work where the weather doesn't play such a large part or emigrate to somewhere with a better climate. 

 

No doubt it'll just stop raining at some point in March and by the end of May the farmers will be crying out for rain.

 

Interestingly, a great many fields here are irrigated as a matter of course. There is just the assumption that there will be the need for watering, and infrastructure is in place in the fields to provide it. I don't recall it being commonplace in the UK

We irrigate here where I live and pipes are permanent.

Underground systems from the supply lake cover a huger area on the farm.

We get long periods of no rain so yes it is common place.

[Botty Cough]

38 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

This was a surprise when I got to work this morning.

Wales is Sh1t

[Big J]

10 minutes ago, Botty Cough said:

We irrigate here where I live and pipes are permanent.

Underground systems from the supply lake cover a huger area on the farm.

We get long periods of no rain so yes it is common place.

 

Where abouts are you? As an adult, I've lived in Scotland and Devon, so not the driest places!

[Botty Cough]

5 minutes ago, Big J said:

 

Where abouts are you? As an adult, I've lived in Scotland and Devon, so not the driest places!

In the UK.

It's not the driest as you say however long periods without rain make it difficult to grow the crops we do so irrigation is key.

[Big J]

Lovely weather here at the moment. Every night a few degrees below freezing (no frost though as too dry) and every day sunny and 4-8c. A little greyer, windier and colder at the weekend, but back to more of the same next week. 

 

Feels like spring is coming.