Kent is not the rest of the country, much of which (even outside Scotland) had another day of overcast skies, wind & some heavy rain.
True, the last three days have, at a stroke, more than doubled the number of days on which we have been able to go out justly confident that there would be no rain.
Correction – only yesterday & today have been like that – we simply did not believe them in their forecast for Wednesday, not after Tuesday.
I do not know how much of the country, outside Scotland, had a similarly enraging Tuesday –the BBC, the Met Office, not even Paul Simons, want to tell me. But we are 300 miles south of Loch Lomond & only 200 miles north of Gravesend, so it must have been a pretty large number of people who are owed an apology.
Melanie Reid got it right in her Times column of the same day as Paul Simons: This year the real untold tale is of two Britains divided by climate. Cumbria, Lancashire, West Yorkshire, parts of Wales and the West Country and the entire West Coast of Scotland have endured almost constant rain for the past ten weeks.
We have not had it as bad as Scotland, being more on the fringe of all these Atlantic depressions, nor is our ground as water logged. Our problems with mud & surface water have been almost zero, in stark contrast to last year, thanks to all the good housekeeping on the drains.
But we too feel depressed & oppressed by the heavy sky & lack of light.
Links
Weather eye: Topsy-turvy weather across Britain
Ten weeks of rain is a disaster for the North and West
Weather eye: Topsy-turvy weather across Britain
Ten weeks of rain is a disaster for the North and West
