Rain Barrel Weather Loghttps://rainbarrelweather.com/Daily rainfall and minimum temperature readings from an allotment plot in Norwich: frost dates over five seasons, water butt yields and what the record changed about sowing.enA wet June measured against five years of my own figureshttps://rainbarrelweather.com/journal/a-wet-june-against-the-record/https://rainbarrelweather.com/journal/a-wet-june-against-the-record/June 2026 delivered more than twice my six year average rainfall on this plot. Here is what the daily figures show, and what changed about my sowing dates as a result.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTWhat four water butts actually catch off a shed roofhttps://rainbarrelweather.com/journal/what-the-water-butts-actually-catch/https://rainbarrelweather.com/journal/what-the-water-butts-actually-catch/Measured roof area, six years of rainfall figures and the gap between the litres that should arrive in the butts and the litres that really do.Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMTFive seasons of last frost dates on one allotmenthttps://rainbarrelweather.com/journal/five-seasons-of-frost-dates/https://rainbarrelweather.com/journal/five-seasons-of-frost-dates/Air frost and ground frost dates from 2020 to 2024 on a single Norwich plot, the cold corner by the hedge, and why the county average was three weeks out for me.Sun, 19 May 2024 12:00:00 GMTWhy the reading hour matters more than the gauge doeshttps://rainbarrelweather.com/journal/reading-the-gauge-at-the-same-hour/https://rainbarrelweather.com/journal/reading-the-gauge-at-the-same-hour/Six years of morning readings on one allotment, what siting a rain gauge badly cost me, and the second gauge four metres away that disagreed by a fifth of the total.Sun, 23 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT