In message , Emery Davis
writes
On 04/23/2011 09:40 AM, Bob Hobden wrote:
This drought is getting serious now.
We have had no proper rain for two months with only one small useless
shower in that time that I can remember. Been watering our allotment
since we put in the Shallots and Onion sets in the beginning of March.
For us, watering in March and April is unheard of! Now we have a lot of
stuff planted we are watering almost daily as if it's the height of
summer, even plants that should cope like old currant bushes are having
to be watered, and the ground is bone dry to quite a depth.
How is everyone else coping?

Certainly miserable in Normandy. Dry as a bone. Thundering now, I took
the car to the car wash as a sort of incantation.

Water butt is about empty, we'll be pumping from the well soon.

They say this year is dryer than the legendary '76.


Yup, been very dry here in mid Cambridgeshire, have had one very brief
shower a few weeks ago that has been it since the last proper rain
sometime in Feb. Much watering of course. Though it seems less of an
issue down here generally, than it was in Leeds when it's dry,
presumably because it's always very dry here anyway, so the water system
etc. is better able to cope?

Could well be dryer so far than '76, though the problems that year were
compounded by the 75 being pretty dry as well IIRC.

I'm surprised there has not been more a stories in the press about this
as it must already be impacting on the water in reservoirs etc?
--
Chris French