The full on doom and gloom topic.

[BarryZola]

It does feel like it's hardly stopped raining though, to be fair. I'm in the West Mids. It's been really annoying. I don't mind cold, but can't stand constant wet sogginess and it seems to have been that way for months. But yeah, the reservoirs will be drying up by June as this country has been led by pathetic selfish idiots for decades.

 

[rob666]

Nope:

If you have been hit by relentless rain and flooding this winter you might well be expecting the weather to have broken some records.

Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that is not the case, with rainfall so far this season just 9% above average for the UK as a whole - wet, but far from the wettest.

UK winter nowhere near a record breaker despite relentless rain and storms

While some parts of the country have had a very wet winter and significant flooding, others have actually been drier than normal as Ben Rich explains.

www.bbc.co.uk

Wettest spell for twenty years...set your own metric.

Just checked your honour...it all depends on your personal measure...and if you are out in the actual weather all day.

I have lost forty full days to wet since last October...notes of lack of income for the taxman of course.

A record, in my actual records, for the Ribble Valley area, for twenty years.

Not volume of rain, not number of hours of rain, but number of working hours lost to rain...my personal worst ever.

Very wet indeed, probably wetter than the winter of building the Smiler...another very soggy one.

Possibly wetter than an otter's pocket.

 

[Vik]

On the plus side. When I dig up more of my grass to make way for a hard standing for the wheelie bins it will be easy to do. Like 2 years ago when I dug up a 4 metre by 4 metre space where the decking would go. Nice and moist. Easy. . It was last years task, but a bit ‘dry’, so was put off. (Any excuse!!).
Should get a move on really.

 

[rob666]

...like slicing up a black forest gateau.
Lawn edging is lovely fun at this time of year.

 

[Alix]

Not to hijack the thread too much but today I learned (sea) otters actually *do* have pockets... It's not just a saying. It is under their armpits to save food when hunting under water.

They also do all sorts of nasty things to baby seals, lady (sea) otters, and pet dogs - so there's the doomy gloomy bit.

As you were.

 

[pluk]

Yay, end of winter, start of spring as a keen semi retired gardener.

Could someone sort the weather out for me please, I have all this moss and algae to play with, but I need god to stop doing the wet stuff first.

Wet doom and gloom.

We haven't had a dry stretch up here since last Halloween, the forecast for the next two weeks is rain or showers every day.

No weekday local coasters to skive off to when rained off, not enough earnings to throw more money at the volvo for the summer world tour of Britain(2025).

Think this is our wettest spell for twenty years.

No doubt the drought will start by mid April.

My allotment is an absolute bog. I need to work on it so badly, but can't do a thing.

Anyone know how to grow rice?

 

[DiogoJ42]

Better rice than rasty.