The Drought

[fgc325j]

Who's got mushrooms
Fields full View attachment 887223View attachment 887224

Long time since i've had fresh mushrooms, off the field, fried for breakfast - the frying pan's covered in cobwebs

 

[Netherfield]

July 2019 res was full to overflowing and still coming in.

Yesterday it was coming in as fast as being used and the level 8 foot below the overflow.

 

[Chap]

No noticeable rain here for the last month (Glos/Herefs border), any that falls is very light and the wind and sun whips it away. The last three fields of spring barley are just about ruined.

Sadly the same. 2mm in last 6 weeks. Had 7 mm 2 miles away on Friday but we’ve had nought

 

[Nick.]

We’re up to about 9mm for June.
It wouldn’t have been so bad in one dose, but a few .7mm‘s then some sun and it’s all gone.
The most we had in one was Saturday night 5mm.
Got an inch forecast for the rest of the week. I’ll bet we don’t get it. ??

 

[DanniAgro]

At last! 27mm this evening means an end to drought since the end of April.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I wish we could see where people are without asking . Would save me constantly messaging friends to see if they have had rain

 

[britt]

After a weekend of watching storms just miss us, 23mm yesterday.
Came so fast overflowing gutters and blocked drains all over the place, must be 10 years since it rained that hard.

 

[Brisel]

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July 2019 res was full to overflowing and still coming in.
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Yesterday it was coming in as fast as being used and the level 8 foot below the overflow.

What is the walled feed off to the left above the weir please? Mill stream?

 

[Werzle]

Droughts over

 

[Netherfield]

What is the walled feed off to the left above the weir please? Mill stream?

That's the water inlet from two other reservoirs higher up the hillside over a couple of miles length overall.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Droughts over

Downgraded to a cold spell without rain

 

[jd2013]

Droughts over

Not up here!

 

[dt995]

Thunderstorm and hissing it down, again. Bring back the drought, please, ffs.

 

[MrNoo]

Not up here!

Or here, watched a couple of storms skirt round us, some only a mile away had 25+mm in the space of half an hour

 

[Derrick Hughes]

My God, what have you done now

 

[Werzle]

My God, what have you done now View attachment 887958

Cold spell without rain by the looks. Hay making day for you welsh boys!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Cold spell without rain by the looks. Hay making day for you welsh boys!

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[Kam]

25mm in less than an hour

 

[MrNoo]

Nada, not a sausage. Went to see my sister in Cheltenham and her patio was 4" underwater, cats and dogs down there.

 

[Mark C]

20MM in last 24 hours. First meaningful rain since April. Too late for grass crops now, which are dead on their feet , but glad I put fert on early cut haylage ground for second cut