Drought!

If history has any relevance (as in ‘doomed to repeat’) we’ll muddle through until halfway through September when the government will appoint a Minister for Drought which will be the cue for immediate rainfall in a record breaking deluge!

Don't say that, I'll be there in Mid-September.

Me too.. I don’t want a deluge in September. Pretty please 🙏

Me too, no heavy rains in September please.

ian is right - I've seen it before!

Not much fun for visitors to our green and pleasant brown and burnt land but we'd certainly appreciate it. It isn't much fun watering trees and flowers with a watering can.

Which is the government office we contact to request rain overnight but sunny and warm during the day?

We flew into Heathrow on our way to Switzerland in late July 2018, and much of Europe was experiencing a drought and heatwave then too. All the normally-green fields we could see from the plane were dry and brown.

When we got to our beloved Oeschinensee near Kandersteg a week later, the lake level was so low it was depressing.

That year the heatwave broke, at least in the Alps, with a tremendous late-afternoon thunderstorm around August 6, followed by several days of rain—-just as we headed out to hike the Tour du Mont Blanc. But mostly the rain came in the afternoon and lasted into the evening. So someone must have arranged that with the governments of France, ItLy, and Switzerland?

Click this link for a live feed of where (if) it is raining in the UK:>https://meteoradar.co.uk/satellite-rainradar#

PS. Perhaps they will have to send a big pipe with water down from Scotland to England?

James -

They’ve already done that, linking Scottish and Keilder reservoirs to Yorkshire after Yorkshire Water infamously ran out of water (they had one job……) a few years back. Water, I remember, was road freighted to Yorkshire in shiny silver tankers. This was a stressful time, especially so for Yorkshire Water who awarded themselves bonuses for coping with the stress caused by them running out of water, while the rest of us went “Wha…?”.

Oh, and Nick…. I think any politician will promise you anything if you’ll support them. The moon on a stick too, if you want!

Ian

Big choose to make. Magic money tree Truss or money to deprived Tunbridge Wells giver Sunak

Well, I never knew that Scottish Water can get transferred to northern England. I bet if Nicola Sturgeon removes Scotland from the UK that she will charge the English for this water or do a ‘Putin’ and limit supply.

Hi James -

I thought I should check that my memory was not playing tricks on me (spoiler - looks like it was) so did some checking and I can’t find any evidence that there is a link to Yorkshire from Scottish reservoirs. There is a link to Keilder in Northumberland and water can be supplied from there in an emergency. Turns out the business supply of water for Yorkshire was bought up, having been owned by a complex network of companies registered in Jersey (what…..?) by a Scottish company, so maybe that’s where my facts are getting scrambled. I’m pretty sure any first minister of Scotland wouldn’t supply England with water without charging them for it, independence or no!

Apologies for alternative facts - my bad!

Ian

Well Ian, many thanks for clarifying the matter.

It looks like another hot & sunny week ahead for most of the UK. However, from around the 15 August 2022, the weather is expected to change to cooler wetter conditions. https://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/Bath/forecasts/latest