Pinned to the pontoon in Shotley.

[oldgit]

Welcome to Suffolk ? Wind currently 35 knots and raining.?

 

[Malish]

you're lucky.. when I was last in Suffolk it was....

 

[Slowboat35]

Still the driest county in UK?

 

[Bristolfashion]

Yep, on a mooring at Queensborough and it's blowing away. Sunny at the moment however and the view varies as the boat zooms around!

 

[Daydream believer]

Op is moaning . My mate's guest hammered 2-- 4 inch nails into the side of his aft cabin to hang his clothes up & the boat has been pinned to the pontoon for weeks.

 

[Cantata]

Welcome to Suffolk ? Wind currently 35 knots and raining.?

Luvly innit! Wet and wild in Heybridge Basin. Many worse places to be stuck, though!

 

[Denek]

Yep, on a mooring at Queensborough and it's blowing away. Sunny at the moment however and the view varies as the boat zooms around!

We were there a couple of days ago on the pontoon. Not much in Queenborough is there. Couple of decent pubs though and the Chinese takeaway is not too bad.

 

[Robin]

Probably what we had earlier rockin 'n rollin us but now gone east and sun is out with big wind gusts still jerking ENJOY!

 

[Bristolfashion]

We were there a couple of days ago on the pontoon. Not much in Queenborough is there. Couple of decent pubs though and the Chinese takeaway is not too bad.

The yacht club is very friendly. The Elmley Marshes nature reserve is very nice. They have a little market by the water on a Saturday. The Flying Dutchman does a fine fish & chips.

 

[oldgit]

Just arrived in Woodbridge. Anybody else ever discovered halfway round they really should have stayed at home?

 

[PeterWright]

Still the driest county in UK?

Nah, that's Essex, innit?

 

[Leighb]

I thought it was Cambridgeshire?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I thought it was Cambridgeshire?

So did I. However, the dryest AREA is the Brecklands - where Thetford Forest is. Basically, the reason it's all Forestry Commission is that it's too dry for anything else!

 

[PeterWright]

The only reason for Cambs being dry is the long standing contract the Essex and Suffolk water Company have to pump water from the fens to reservoirs and thence houses in the counties they serve. I've heard it said that when they're pumping in the summer, the Great Ouse flows backwards!. My memories of Cambridge, while perhaps tainted by alcohol, seem to include a lot of very wet weeks - only May week each year seems bathed in sunshine.

Peter.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

The only reason for Cambs being dry is the long standing contract the Essex and Suffolk water Company have to pump water from the fens to reservoirs and thence houses in the counties they serve. I've heard it said that when they're pumping in the summer, the Great Ouse flows backwards!. My memories of Cambridge, while perhaps tainted by alcohol, seem to include a lot of very wet weeks - only May week each year seems bathed in sunshine.

Peter.

While that may be true (I've never seen the Ouse flow backwards, and I live in a village on it), the rainfall in Cambridgeshire is the lowest in the UK. This is interesting: "UK actual and anomaly maps - Met Office" UK actual and anomaly maps

 

[CliveG]

The "river" that flows backwards is the Cut-of-Channel that was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s as part of flood defence measures, and carries the headwaters of the River Wissey, River Lark and River Little Ouse in times of flood, delivering them to Denver Sluice on the River Great Ouse. In the summer months, it is also used as part of a water supply scheme for drinking water in Essex.
For more riverting details go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-off_Channel

 

[PeterWright]

While that may be true (I've never seen the Ouse flow backwards, and I live in a village on it), the rainfall in Cambridgeshire is the lowest in the UK. This is interesting: "UK actual and anomaly maps - Met Office" UK actual and anomaly maps

Hi AP.

I agree that it doesn't sound very credible, but that doesn't stop fenland farmers and market gardeners moaning about the vast quantities of water sent to the E&SW Co, - they might be forgiven for a bit of exaggeration. I'm not sure how to compute rainfall for a county as it's measured by gauges at discreet locations and the area containing the gaude at Paglesham in Essex seems to be coloured black ion the Actual, 1961 - 1990 Anomaly and 1191 -200 Anomaly maps that you kindly linked us to. I believe that for most of the years of my life, that gaugehas recorded the lowest rainfall of all the gauges in the UK regularly monitored by the Met Office. In those years that Paglesham is not the lowest, I believe that honour falls to Brightlingsea.

Peter.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Hi AP.

I agree that it doesn't sound very credible, but that doesn't stop fenland farmers and market gardeners moaning about the vast quantities of water sent to the E&SW Co, - they might be forgiven for a bit of exaggeration. I'm not sure how to compute rainfall for a county as it's measured by gauges at discreet locations and the area containing the gaude at Paglesham in Essex seems to be coloured black ion the Actual, 1961 - 1990 Anomaly and 1191 -200 Anomaly maps that you kindly linked us to. I believe that for most of the years of my life, that gaugehas recorded the lowest rainfall of all the gauges in the UK regularly monitored by the Met Office. In those years that Paglesham is not the lowest, I believe that honour falls to Brightlingsea.

Peter.

My professional career was about spatial data management and analysis. It isn't too bad working with a dataset like rain gauges; they're fairly randomly placed. The difficulty arises with highly non randomly placed data, like data along survey lines. You use the data to interpolate a field, and then it's simply summation over an area. If you're feeling really clever, you include other data to guide the interpolation; for example, rainfall might correlate with elevation, so you include that in the analysis. Precipitation does correlate with elevation in Antarctica, and one of my most cited papers uses that technique (Vaughan et al).

 

[LittleSister]

Precipitation does correlate with elevation in Antarctica

. . . but the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain, it's said.

 

[Chalk]

So did I. However, the dryest AREA is the Brecklands - where Thetford Forest is. Basically, the reason it's all Forestry Commission is that it's too dry for anything else!

And VERY sandy!