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ian_charles
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Where's the hosepipe ban, where are the pictures of dry reservoirs?
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Been raining for the past week or more in Northern Ireland.
You must be in Wales then......
Liverpool.
A few more hot summery days/weeks then into Autumn,--it's how it should be.
Close enough....
Also, we had a wet winter so the reservoirs and water table were healthy going into the summer. Water shortage problems occur when a dry summer follows a dry winter.
I know how you feel, will be glad when it cools down
We've also had a reasonable amount of rain, hence the grass is green and not a parched brown colour.
There will be a hell of a harvest this year, following perfect growing conditions.
I haven't seen the start of it yet!
And OP - droughts, and the ensuing hosepipe bans don't really come about as a result of warm, dry summers, because the seasonal rainfall is low then anyway. They come about when we have unseasonably dry *winters*, which is when the water companies expect to replenish their stocks. If that happens a couple of years on the trot, then even in a normal summer they will look to users to conserver water consumption.
You say on the 7th of August.
Cooler here today though which is good as moving around getting work done instead of sitting melting.
I'm astonished that you've got brown grass if you're in the UK, as the rainfall has been fairly evenly distributed. Rainfall in July was close to average at 94%.
Where are you, if you don't mind me asking ?
It has been a good Summer pretty much everywhere, with plenty of very warm Sun, but not a drought. .
Blimey, don't you remember winter?