Surely not again

For the third year in a row rain is threatening to disrupt harvest. Talking to a farmer at Saturday's rather wet (though still excellent) Tenbury Show he told me that he had n't had three consecutive dry days in the whole of last month. The crops are standing ready for harvest and the quality is going down with each day that passes. Last year he had to abandon crops because he could gather them. It was the same the year before that.

Add to the equation that cereal prices have weakened and the cost of diesel, fertiliser and other essentials have gone up and it's a gloomy picture.

The old Book of Common Prayer from 1662 has a prayer for fine weather. It goes,
For Fair Weather. ALMIGHTY Lord God, who for the sin of man didst once drown all the world, except eight persons, and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again; We humbly beseech thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and waters, yet upon our true repentance thou wilt send us such weather, as that we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season; and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives, and for thy clemency to give thee praise and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

I wonder if it might help.