It's too hot :(

When I checked the weather on Thursday, it's was nothing but unbroken sun for the next 3 days.

Well those three days have come, and it's been grey and overcast.
 
.seems to have been sunny for so long now and pretty perfect for me, i did a strenuous cliff walk to Boscastle yesterday only notched up 9 miles but jumped on the bus back to chill more in the sun, will embrace the rain when it comes for the garden
 
Getting some badly needed rain here - I know they've said it has been dry but I hadn't realised how bad until I was stuck in a bad traffic jam on Monday and saw how dried out the verges were with more brown/yellow than green grass.
 
1 of my 4 water butts got 1/4 filled from rain last night. Was supposed to be loads more this afternoon, but revised forecast now shows much lighter rain. Garden is parched still.
 
No rain in York just yet and yesterday there was a fire at the nature reserve which is about 6 miles from York.

My grass definitely needs the rain but I don't want it!

It's lovely and sunny for the moment but a very cold wind so it's hard to know what to wear!
 
We are forcast rain on Sat then no more till next Tuesday and rest of the week.
By time we get there the forcast will have changed to more sun.
All 9 water butts in garden are empty. we really do need heavy rain for a few days.
 
We are finally forecast rain for Sunday and Monday. Hopefully it will be a lot because we really need it as we have only has 18.6mm of rain in the past 8 weeks and that did nothing. April was the driest since I started keeping records over 15 years ago. The River Spey is at it's lowest for decades, the ground is rock hard and really dusty, so dusty that when we had a strong Northerly wind last week it created a dust storm. We can normally see for miles down the Spey Valley and out to Ben Rinnes but last week we could barely see the bottom of the field our house backs on to. Sunset was a weird orange tint to everything and once the wind died down the next day everything was covered in a layer of dust. Scottish water is even filling tanker by pumping water out of the River Spey to supplement those with borehole supplies. The problem may come that if we do have a lot of rain the ground is so hard that it could just run off and cause flooding. That happened a couple of years ago in the village. We had a flash flood and a tidal wave of mud and water swept down the hill and left a couple of feet of mud in the village. It took several days to clear it up with JCB's and tipper lorries and even longer to flush the blocked solid drains.
 
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