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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
6 minutes ago, suffolkboy_ said:

Dublin Swimming Baths have announced that they will be closing swimming lanes 7 and 8 in order to save water.

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  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet
  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet
2 hours ago, MildCarlilse said:

Unusually strong +AO has forced the sub-tropical high pressure belt pretty far north compared to normal. That has caused said heat. 

Not a bad thing for the hurricane season of course since it should mean lower than normal pressure in the tropics. 

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  • Location: Belper, Derbyshire
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms
  • Location: Belper, Derbyshire

Today will be day 30 without rain here, apart from one or two spots of rain which didn't even dampen the ground on June 16th. 

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

United Utilities could announce a hosepipe ban within day's unless the north-west gets some rain

Current water levels

Pennine reservoirs 63.9% (73.3% last year)

Haweswater and Thirlmere in the Lake District are 57.8% (79% last year).

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
  • Weather Preferences: Any Extreme
  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield

18 days without measurable rain and only one had a trace during this period. In the last thirty six days we had just 25.9mm of rain and 18mm of this fell on the 2nd of June.

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset

Three day's since the last rainfall here, and rain two day's before that.

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  • Location: New Forest (Western)
  • Weather Preferences: Fascinated by extreme weather. Despise drizzle.
  • Location: New Forest (Western)

20 days and counting since I last saw more than trace amounts here.

37 days and counting since I last saw a daily total of more than 0.6 mm.

73 days and counting since the last 'properly wet day' i.e one delivering at least 10 mm. Nearest to breaking that run have been 2nd May with 8.0 mm and 30th May with 7.6 mm.

 

The 6-month moving average rainfall anomaly shows the wet March-April to have effectively been cancelled out as of the end of June. 

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  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet
  • Location: Leeds/Bradford border, 185 metres above sea level, around 600 feet

We did get a shower on Thursday that lasted less than five minutes.

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  • Location: Saffron Walden, near Cambridge.
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and hot.
  • Location: Saffron Walden, near Cambridge.

The last day here with any rainfall whatsoever was May 30th. Pretty much 40 days. 

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  • Location: Chevening Kent
  • Location: Chevening Kent

Rain now will do little if anything to replenish stocks, unless its a sustained wet period. Groundwater levels only recover during the winter and early Spring months, this is because almost all the rain that falls is lost to either evaporation or due to the hard ground will appear in rivers as runoff.  The type of rain you get (I know I sound like British Rail) is also an important factor, sudden downpours, although they will stop immediate demand dead in its tracks in that area, can actually be counter productive.

The ground has picked up so much particulate matter, that any runoff into rivers causes the (DO) oxygen levels to plummet, the fish die, the water is almost untreatable, and can cause any abstraction taking place to be stopped.

There is even a special boat known as a bubbler that works the Thames when needed which simply introduces oxygen bubbles into the water to oxygenate the river. 

     

       

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  • Location: Cambridge
  • Location: Cambridge
On 07/07/2018 at 08:01, Supacell said:

Today will be day 30 without rain here, apart from one or two spots of rain which didn't even dampen the ground on June 16th. 

Hmmm rain i think i remember that. Fingers crossed the change will happen mid month

 

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19 days since we last saw rain in Durham (apart from this morning’s light drizzle, which wasn’t measurable).

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  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Cold & Snowy, Summer: Just not hot
  • Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire

Just walked to the shop on my lunch break and there are so many leaves lining the pavements, it's like October! Possible drought stress?

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
  • Weather Preferences: Any Extreme
  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield

Finally had some rain yesterday 4.4mm so drought broken.

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
1 hour ago, Nick L said:

Just walked to the shop on my lunch break and there are so many leaves lining the pavements, it's like October! Possible drought stress?

Yes same round these parts to Nick, An early Autumn fall beacons maybe? 're heat stress.

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  • Location: South Norfolk, 44 m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Varied and not extreme.
  • Location: South Norfolk, 44 m ASL.
2 hours ago, Steve Murr said:

Like a dust bowl here

no rain since late may getting on for 50 days!!

Same here.  Amazing that many on this forum are moaning that rain next week means an unsettled second half of summer and an "early autumn" where, in fact, the surest route to an early autumn is continued drought.

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  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...
  • Weather Preferences: extremes n snow
  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...

Canals now really struggling with lack of water.

Leeds-Liverpool shutting completely soon, down to very restricted locking hours already. Several closures and stoppages this week (Grand Union, Macclesfield, Trent and Mersey, South Oxford etc) due to water shortages and lack of ongoing maintenance resulting in breakages or greater water loss than can be replaced. Even the River Weaver is very low along with the Nene.

 

In fact, I have never seen this map with as much orange (below expected levels) as there is today...

http://www.gaugemap.co.uk/#!Map

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