"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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Jim Webster writes

if we have dry soil a foot down then it has been a drought. I
remember
once dry soil three feet down, which is unheard of and was after the
big
drought in the 70s.

1976, my first year here.

Burned a field and set the soil alight.

Ho-hum ....

we have an aerial photo taken at the height of the drought, grass looks
like stubble (same colour) and the lane which is tarmac looks like dried
earth from the dust settled on it and compacted.

We call that summer

Gordon