Only 21.5mm here, well below average.

My ground is Limestone and very porous.   On the old Wellow 100 Tithe Map ,it is sown as Poor Field. the stone just below the surface.

Field at the back was ploughed and sown with grass seed.  Only the weeds grew. On a HILLCREST overlooking Camerton -Dunkerton valley with the winds drying everything out. Patio to the rear with 26 pots/tubs. So need some  rain instead of using the hose....

13mm last evening

Month now at 57.6mm

Average is 91.2mm

Prayer mat out. Rain Dance tomorrow..

Originally Posted by: Matty H 

Why? Water levels are fine. Fortunately no meaningful rain in sight. Hopefully any that does come will fall during nighttime hours. We've had plenty last weekend.

Originally Posted by: ARTzeman 

Maybe he's talking from a gardening point of view, Matty. First rainfall here since the 19th produced a trace from the upper cold front and just 1.2mm from the surface cold front. The garden here is on a very free-draining hill of sand, so after a week of very warm and dry weather it needs a drink! I'm lazy and would prefer the weather to take care of it Total now at 57.2mm, the average for this area is 76.7mm.

Originally Posted by: P+ve Giant 

Only 51.5mm. This month Myground is Limestone and very porous. On the old Wellow 100 Tithe Map ,it is sown as Poor Field. the stone just below the surface. Field at the back was ploughed and sown with grass seed.Only the weeds grew. On a HILLCREST overlooking Camerton -Dunkerton valley with the winds drying everything out. Patio to the rear with 26 pots/tubs. So need some rain instead of using the hose....

Originally Posted by: Matty H 

Tarmac it over. Problem solved 👅

Originally Posted by: ARTzeman 

I just knew that would be your reply, Matty! Drastic but effective!

Prayer mat out. Rain Dance tomorrow..

Originally Posted by: P+ve Giant 

Why? Water levels are fine. Fortunately no meaningful rain in sight. Hopefully any that does come will fall during nighttime hours. We've had plenty last weekend.

Originally Posted by: Matty H 

Maybe he's talking from a gardening point of view, Matty. First rainfall here since the 19th produced a trace from the upper cold front and just 1.2mm from the surface cold front. The garden here is on a very free-draining hill of sand, so after a week of very warm and dry weather it needs a drink! I'm lazy and would prefer the weather to take care of it Total now at 57.2mm, the average for this area is 76.7mm.

Originally Posted by: ARTzeman 

Only 51.5mm. This month Myground is Limestone and very porous. On the old Wellow 100 Tithe Map ,it is sown as Poor Field. the stone just below the surface. Field at the back was ploughed and sown with grass seed.Only the weeds grew. On a HILLCREST overlooking Camerton -Dunkerton valley with the winds drying everything out. Patio to the rear with 26 pots/tubs. So need some rain instead of using the hose....

Originally Posted by: P+ve Giant 

Tarmac it over. Problem solved 👅

Originally Posted by: Matty H 

I just knew that would be your reply, Matty! Drastic but effective!

Originally Posted by: ARTzeman 

Got patio slabs which allow drainage .....

55.1mm will remain.. Good job we had a downpour this month..  

Finally back online in full force 

Just checked my local stats for home and found I'd had 31.5mm to the end of yesterday, which is 89.35 of the LTA for 27 days of July. 

19.8mm - or nearly 2/3 - of the total fell across 5 days 4th-8th July... at which time I was on holiday in the Beacons of course! 

12.4mm fell across 3 days 17th-19th July, more than half being on the last of those days when sporadic thunderstorms tracked across the area. I must say, I don't trust the measurements for that night much - there was a lot of turbulence going on, and the radar showed rain rates of 16-64mm/hr + occurring frequently across the space of a couple of hours!

The other day I watched a program about 'Cloud Lab', and among the various measurements conducted was one of typical droplet sizes in a polluted cloud as opposed to a clean one.

It turns out that the polluted cloud typically has smaller droplets.

With pollutant levels in the UK's atmosphere having fallen a fair bit during my lifetime, it seems there is now a strong scientific explanation for something that I've long believed to have occured based on experiences at the surface - an increase in typical droplet size over the past decade or so.

I wonder if the recorded frequency of drizzle in urban areas has fallen notably over the past 2-3 decades? If I had the time... 

Interesting! I guess that the type of pollution would make a difference as well as the pollutant height levels. The biggest rain-drops Ive ever seen was around the mid to late '80s but that could have been a very localised event. I sometimes wonder if the frontal clouds were seeded at the end of the 1976 drought or just whether the amount of dust in the atmosphere produced the torrential rain rain out of light grey skies - the droplets on that occasion though were large!

A trace on the 27th, total remains at 57.2mm.

National Rain Day . Waynesburg, Pennsylvania ,,   Has rained there on this day a number times  in the past centaury.

They may have a thunderstorm today or a shower tonight.

Here nothing for me.......

Nothing from the occlusion that's moving through here atm. Got fooled by the murkiness and got the washing in I should have checked the radar first! Just some light and patchy rain in western Scotland atm. Have watered the borders that have dried out quickly in the breeze. Lawns around here now have straw-coloured hues. Our back lawn still lush green - due in part to shading from the woodland and two teenage lads have a monumental water-gun fight

Edit 14.35 BST ... Drizzle .. that'll be another trace, then

22.7mm

35.0mm so unless it is very wet tomorrow it will be the first drier than average July since 2008.

Last year had only 7mm up to the 24th but two very wet days in the final week took the total above average. Still had fewer rain days than this year with only 8 compared to a likely 12 this month (assuming rain tomorrow).

25.1mm

Will  I have any precipitation today or will the 51.5mm be the final total for the month ...Local forecast  predicts that I should be having some..

Well.. Precipitation at last.. A whole 1.2mm to add to total..    Now  52.3mm.....

It will be 46.8mm here as it won't rain before midnight.
That's below average but last year was only 33mm so nothing special. Average is 85mm.

June July and August are all potentially wetter than spring and autumn months here, especially since they often go to either extreme - dry or frequent heavy summer-type rain.
All three have comfortably exceeded 150mm in recent years.

Just a trace today from slight showers; there were some heavy ones around the area - the luck of the draw!

Only 1.2mm recorded since the 19th.

Final total is 57.2mm which is below the 76.7mm July average for this area.

46.1 in the end, 21 of that falling yesteday afternoon.

Total here was 21.8mm, well below average.

26.8mm which is just 69% of the long run mean

63.8mm,  circa 15% above average.

Final July total here is 65mm.    Third consecutive wet month recorded, with 257mm falling from May through to July.