Drought

[einstein]

It's all changed in 4 days here...getting on for 80mm or more since Wednesday... Thunder and torrential rain right now
Even the guash nearby is running higher...Rutland water will take some filling though
It's amazing how quickly it can change....I remember 2007 ...it was so dry in the spring I wonder if it would ever rain again...never stopped that summer!

 

[dave78+]

Drought is like a cancerous disease that manifests as a disaster for farmers all around the world year-after year.
Trees and bushes are water pumps that bring water out of the soils and into the troposphere. However, there appears to be too few clouds in the skies to provided crops and forests with protection from the intense heat of the Sun. People are cutting down trees and bushes everywhere daily and by so doing they are acting in a detrimental manner to themselves due to the fact that they all need foods.

 

[faircomment]

54.5mm of rain for 2023 so far, dry for February

 

[le bon paysan]

Credit
@MikeHudema

Droughts in Europe made the "Hunger Stones" visible last year. These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines. This one, in Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: "If you see me, cry"

There is no time to wait.

 

[Top Tip.]

Well we are well and truly saturated,water everywhere , burn’s running full to overflowing. It’ll be a day or two before drought becomes an issue here.

 

[7610 super q]

Yes, dry January/ February, things were looking good. Now the monsoon season has started. Won't be much done till April if forecast is correct.

 

[faircomment]

Still dry in East Yorkshire, only 15mm for March so far. 78.5mm for the year.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

38mm in 12 hours!

 

[Wombat]

Still dry in East Yorkshire, only 15mm for March so far. 78.5mm for the year.

And it’s great, long May it continue

 

[Flatlander]

A massive area of Argentina and Brazil is severely droughted. the exportable amount of corn and beans from there won’t be much from this years crop. Tough times for them. Even the Amazon river is low cutting off towns and small cities from needed supplies normally brought in by boat

 

[dave78+]

They just love felling trees in the Amazon. They will cause their own starvation!

 

[crashbox]

They just love felling trees in the Amazon. They will cause their own starvation!

Did we do the same in the UK?

A lot less forest than 1000 years ago, I suspect. Not saying that is a good thing.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Did we do the same in the UK?

A lot less forest than 1000 years ago, I suspect. Not saying that is a good thing.

I think it is a myth, that a squirrel could climb a tree in Lands End and get to John O Groats without touching the ground, we were, in recent pre history a savannah of open grassland interspersed with trees and woodland (kept that way by Aurochs, Horses, Pigs etc).

 

[dave78+]

Ancient people had cut down some of the trees and bushes in the UK in order to cook their foods and heat the holes that they had lived in. I cannot imagine there being any naturally occurring savannah although the ancient folk probably did start a few forest fires. The woollen mammoths had also been unkind towards trees and bushes. Wales probably has more trees and bushes under waste rock than can be seen. Welsh people found coal under their hills and dumped the waste materials onto the nearby forests so we can no longer see the trees. Not sure how many trees will be left after HS2 is done and other politically designed schemes are finished.

 

[Tractorstant]

Credit
@MikeHudema

Droughts in Europe made the "Hunger Stones" visible last year. These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines. This one, in Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: "If you see me, cry"

There is no time to wait.
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We've just been put on Level II ( yellow ) alert here for water usage.

 

[le bon paysan]

YouTube, Sky news, another summer drought.
It came up on my feed last night. Looks like it's going to be crap again.

 

[Devil's advocate]

YouTube, Sky news, another summer drought.
It came up on my feed last night. Looks like it's going to be crap again.

Driest Feb since 1993.

Year I made a fortune out of swedes, very drippy summer followed by wet Autumn.

2012 & 2007 very dry springs followed by very wet summers.

 

[Wombat]

Fingers crossed for drought not 2012

 

[smcapstick]

There’s not much evidence of a drought at the circus in Oswestry, today!

 

[dave78+]

There’s not much evidence of a drought at the circus in Oswestry, today!

Not yet!