Met Eireann has issued a yellow warning for thunderstorms this afternoon and evening, but there's no sign of any precipitation. A few cumulonimbus are building but nothing really ominous, yet. We've had 4.1 mm of rain in the first two weeks of June in Furnace at least, and there is not much on the horizon. The next two days are to be the hottest of the week. We reached 26C today in the shade. That's 79F. It doesn't sound like a lot but it is for us, and our vegetation wasn't made for this climate.
Met Eireann has also announced that the rest of the summer is going to be hotter and drier than normal. We've already lost quite a few plants with watering every day. If we can't water at some point, we will lose much more. We were supposed to have thunderstorms yesterday, and some places did, but what we got again was not nearly enough to make a difference.
Somehow the vines are growing strongly. They have not yet flowered but are now close. Let's hope the fruit sets and we manage to have a decent harvest.
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