Bloody typical…we have heavy thunderstorms over night with significant heavy rain obseerved, through window with eyes. Whats does VP tell me? .01 of an inch! Now I know it takes a lot of rain to make an inch but when there are puddles on the drive way its not a hard job to imagine more than 100th of an inch has fallen.
So I opened up my rain bucket and what did I find. A spider with an abdomen the size of a large pea had wrapped his web all around my tipping device.
Following a swift eviction and removal of a number of dead animals, i taped up all the holes (cable entry points) to prevent a recurrance… At least my bucket was accessible by standing on a chair. I seem to remember seeing a picture where someone had mounted theirs on a chimney stack !!
Ever wanted to know what an inch of rain looked like? read this
http://www.weymouth.gov.uk/main.asp?svid=137&svaid=268&svapid=915
An interesting feature of this site is the What was it like page. Get weather details for Weymouth & Portland for any date since 1 Jan 1927