Raindrops on my windows

We drove from Oxford to Cornwall yesterday, we left blue skies and sun and encountered so much rain it was difficult to see ahead of us.

But how green is Devon and Cornwall! No brown fields, just lush green grass.

Sunny here today though, hopefully a dry journey home.

Are you sure your neighbours weren't out doing a sneaky early morning watering of their garden, and accidentally sprayed your windows?
Only joking.

I wish we could get some of that rain.
This year is reminding me of Jean de Florette. where the rains just won't come, and even when rain looks absolutely certain on the forecast, it is skirting around us. That has happened again this week!

I was woken twice in the early hours by torrential rain and it’s still raining heavily now it’s lovely lying with the windows wide open listening to rainfall.

Same here tanith and the non stop lightning and thunder was amazing!

We had about a centimetre of drizzle around 6am in my part of Oxfordshire. Nothing since.

You’ve echoed my thoughts on waking this morning tanith probably 7 weeks or more since I’ve heard that noise. That was at 6:30 and it’s still going, garden is lapping it up, water butt is getting topped up and my car’s getting a wash!

We have had a few days of rain but the grass on the green near us is still brown. It’s started to feel like autumn with trees just turning and a slight nip in air.

I’m in a tent with three young children. It’s poured all night and still is. I am not happy about it!

We have had heavy rain and thunder since about 6 this morning. Wonderful! Every time the forecast showed rain in our area in the last few weeks it somehow missed us.

Commiserations Zonne. I hope it soon stops wherever you are.

You should live in this green and verdant corner. We have had rain on and off for the last three weeks and only had the hose pipe out once all summer, we don't have a ban.
DH is hoping to hit the high fells today but unfortunately very low cloud.

Pouring here in Bedfordshire, which is lovely. Stuck my head out of the window, and the smell is wonderful.

But typically, it has come on the one day it was needed to be dry! My son's friend, his wife and baby are visiting from Scotland, and they had planned a day out at Whipsnade Zoo. Time for a re-think.

Here on the Suffolk Norfolk border we had huge thunderstorms during the night and must be the whole of August's rainfall in one night. lots of flooded roads though. But lovely to have fresh air at last.

We were promised sun here today and it's raining.

We have GDs on the second day of sleepover...grrr

I'm never happy!!

Oh this is wonderful! Rain started here in Berkshire about six thirty this morning and we still have it. Fairly heavy rain too, but not the torrential stuff which would just run off our parched ground. No thunder or lightning though.

It’s particularly welcome here as we often seem to miss it, seemingly being too far east if it’s coming from the west, or too far west if it comes up from France and passes over East Sussex and Kent.

According to my BBC weather app it’s expected to continue until about midday. The rain water butts will be filling nicely.
Yippee!

Yippee from me too .

So the naked rain dances worked !

I would love to see some rain here in Shropshire. We have had the odd shower and some drizzle but not the heavy, prolonged rain we badly need.

Commiserations Zonne. I hope it soon stops wherever you are

Thank you. No luck so far, but we live in hope!

Yes, lovely big fat drops of rain...just in time for my Mother's Nursing Home's Garden Party. I don't know whether to rejoice in the rain which the garden is dying for or to commiserate with the staff for the hard work they have put in just for things to rained off.
Actually, as long as it is sustained rain rather than the pathetic showers we had recently where the ground barely got wet, I'll be happy.

Rained here in the night and still raining now - really lovely and heavy. Didn't even mind that I got wet going to the dentist!

I love the smell when rain falls on dry gound.

That smell is called petrichor…..useful for quizzes a d scrabble!

And the smell before it rains is ozone midgey.
I love the Chase lol.

It's raining here too

My cats can't get their minds around it and keep trying different routes out of the house because they obviously haven't twigged its coming from the sky lol

No rain in mid Wales, we’ve only had a sprinkling this week. It’s a gorgeous sunny day, but there is a definite hint of Autumn in the wind.