Fire Risk

People often focus on just rain when it comes to fire risk but there is much more. Cooler temperatures, less ground heat, morning dew/mists, evening moisture, etc all plays its part. The ground is soaking it up and the grass round by is is gaining a much greener tone already. Not out of the woods, but perhaps an end in sight?

 

depends on the ground; just checked my baked blue clay (much of which was mulched before the heat) and while the mulch layer is damp there is little passed into the baked clay below.

 

The Met Office reports 41.8 mm in Carlisle yesterday - the most reported for the UK.

Down here in mid-Kent it is a case of BBC weather forecasts giveth and the BBC weather forecasts taketh away.

Just over 2 mm so far in the last few days and they seem to have a rolling system that forecasts decent rains that always seem to stay a week or so ahead . . . . . .

Bryan

 

24.2 mm in Stainforth, just north of Settle, in the last 24 hours, and it's still raining.

 

It was pretty much solid torrential rain yesterday morning between Lancaster and Carlisle so assume the WCML got a soaking.

Its 14 degrees in Cumbria today, and it feels bleeding freezing after the last few months (I might even have to bite the bullet and put trousers on in the office!)