Drought. what drought??

[thedeaddiplomat]

I can report with confidence that the drought - at least in my part of Cornwall - is now definitely broken. Should anyone on the Isle of Wight see my bees floating past on their hives, perhaps they would be kind enough to send them back where they belong.

 

[YorkshireBees]

I saw the weather forecast last night and it looks like a lot of rain heading this way but they said it would be raining by 9am this morning, so I planned my day accordingly. Now I am sat looking out at sunshine and it's 18 degs doh!
Of course if I try to do something outside by the time I get there for sure it will be raining!

 

[Silvercleave]

A little bit further up the county is also a little damp to say the least, in fact it is p***** down and has been all morning, now the weeds will really get going!!

 

[Dilligaf]

Typical British Weather.
I looked at the forecast & saw nothing but rain. Put a lawn treatment on that needs rain and havn't seen a drop since.
Typical!!

 

[For want of a better word]

My water storage tanks are filled to he brim, and the fish are swimming around in the lake again!

 

[Winker]

2mm here in bedfordshire today....Thankful for small mercy's

 

[luckydunny]

Cannot see any bees from Cornwall floating past IOW but come to that with rain and mist cannot even see mainland!!!
We do need the rain though!!

 

[viridens]

Strong winds and driving rain here, and only 10C outside. Hives brimming with lots of bees ready to go, but yesterday was the first decent foraging weather for quite some time, and they are confined to hives again today. No stores, and no honey for me and mine so far, in fact I'm still feeding colonies. What a year! Still, mustn't grumble. Things can only get better -I hope!

 

[Skyhook]

First proper rain for ages. Fingers crossed the flowers will now actually produce some nectar- maybe even the limes!

 

[aberreef]

You lot with your dry weather are just showing off

It's rained almost every day in these parts for weeks now, everything from showers to constant My poor bees will forget what foraging is if this continues

 

[susbees]

Pretty good here yesterday...for thrashing nettles to set up stands for a load of returning apideas from a wild moor....off to check those tomorrow with a tonne of fondant :S.

Rain is raining big time: all my AS, swarms and nuc hives are on feed and going to give up and put feeders on the full hives this evening. They would have been fed before except the delayed arrival of our extractor meant we left the Spring honey mostly on-hive.

If this carries on might not bother combining smaller colonies in the hope of a July crop at all

 

[Ellem]

Anyone wanting rain can have some from here if they want it! Needed to check on my hive and have had nothing but rain, rain and more rain. The 20 minutes of sunshine we did have yesterday I was 30 miles away in a meeting!

 

[Cazza]

Can I volunteer for some rain? Still bone dry here.
Hoping it won't peter out before it reaches me.....
Cazza

 

[Ellem]

Can I volunteer for some rain? Still bone dry here.
Hoping it won't peter out before it reaches me.....
Cazza

Please, please take some I've gardening and bees to sort out, so a deluge right now is kind of inconvenient

 

[BILL.HEARD]

Had a force 8 gale this morning with an inch of rain, we have a sea running as well, so another non beekeeping day. Will spend the day mixing syrup.
Didn't I see in certain tabloids a few weeks back warning about a very hot June/July with temperatures up in the 90's, maybe we should place the editors on top of Snowdon!

 

[victor meldrew]

I saw the weather forecast last night and it looks like a lot of rain heading this way but they said it would be raining by 9am this morning, so I planned my day accordingly. Now I am sat looking out at sunshine and it's 18 degs doh!
Of course if I try to do something outside by the time I get there for sure it will be raining!

This side of the hill it's persisting down and plus 9c at 13.30 hrs

John Wilkinson

 

[Flatters]

"Too wet to go out, too cold to play ball, So we sat in the house and did nothing at all. And all we could do was to Sit! Sit! Sit! and we did not like it, not one little bit."

Miserable in Wigan. Lots to do at my allotment, Wanted to make a hive floor and roof but have to work outside to do this, but stuck inside.

Fortunately checked all the hives yesterday and all Q+ after weeks of concern over their status (one AS, two collected swarms and no eggs or larvae seen)

It’s a bit of warmth we could do with to let the small swarms collected start building up numbers and stores.

Forecast better for tomorrow, but back to work.

 

[rob bone]

hooray hooray its stopped raining at last here in somerset

 

[Cazza]

Hurrah. It's been drizzling for an hour now. There are even puddles. I'm off out to plant some dahlias and lettuces and enjoy the rain.
Cazza

 

[MuswellMetro]

Can I volunteer for some rain? Still bone dry here.
Hoping it won't peter out before it reaches me.....
Cazza

well dont look like you are getting much as of 5:30

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

but Northern Ireland looks like is is flooded