Water situation report (EA)

[Wastexprt]

It's starting to look dry for next spring, unless it rains. A lot.

https://assets.publishing.service.g.../file/755670/Water_situation_October_2018.pdf

 

[7610 super q]

It is / has rained a lot. In Crapweathershire anyway. Could do with a long dry spell now.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

It is / has rained a lot. In Crapweathershire anyway. Could do with a long dry spell now.

82mm for last week, coming up to a metre and a half for the year.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Loads of rain here recently but the winter muddy areas you have to avoid still aren't muddy so I reckon there's still a deficit.

 

[roscoe erf]

It is / has rained a lot. In Crapweathershire anyway. Could do with a long dry spell now.

f**k it’s wet here

 

[hollister]

It's got a lot of catching up to do. Ground water was low after last winter!

 

[7610 super q]

 

[RmfJ]

Conditions everywhere else seems to be a world away from Pembrokeshire

 

[Wombat]

We have half a month of autumn and 3 months of winter to go. It's about spot on here and we are still quite dry but getting bits of rain fairly regularly and it can get very wet very quickly

 

[Fish]

Yes, be very careful what you wish for, as I sure the rain will return at some point.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

It's got a lot of catching up to do. Ground water was low after last winter!

I can't believe anyone in gb could have written that! Not even in sunny Warks!
We had over a metre Oct to Feb.

 

[Fiveospades]

We have had reasonable rain recently to ease land work but a lot of our ponds and ditches are still very low. This suggests we need above average rainfall to balance us up before next spring.

 

[Wombat]

We've had about 200mm since May 1 and 120mm of that has come in 2 days, one in late July and mid Sept but its that time of year where it starts to get tacky and the sun is starting to get low enough that it barely dries at all. We had a couple of mm overnight and the concrete barely dried all day. A couple of drains are just starting to trickle as well.

 

[Goweresque]

Still dry as anything here. I guess we must have had less than half the average rainfall here since 1st May, and it was a drier than average winter last time too. Ditches are still dry as bones, tops a little greasy in places after a few wet days at the weekend, but underneath is as hard as a rock.

 

[Cjm]

I can't believe anyone in gb could have written that! Not even in sunny Warks!
We had over a metre Oct to Feb.

And on the Bucks /Northants border we only had 250mm in that period! Sticky in places after 47mm in the last week, but very dry below.....

 

[Pilatus]

It would be interesting to know what contingency plans , the Water Companies of the U.K , could put in to action next spring/summer if it is a drier than normal winter . Assuming they plan that far ahead

 

[Neddy flanders]

45mm in Rutland since May 15th

 

[shakerator]

Yes, be very careful what you wish for, as I sure the rain will return at some point.

if it doesnt for next spring its going to get extremely interesting

 

[Princess Pooper]

yeas, very dry here still, bit of surface mud from rain a few days ago but concrete underneath. River gauge has today gone back down to the same it was in August, which is basically running on groundwater, no streams on the farm are running. Fortunately, groundwater levels not too low.

 

[MrNoo]

Sticky on top in places after the rain at the w-end but been ploughing up Spring ground today and it's very dry underneath. Our main pond is almost dried up (how it would normally be in the hight of summer) and no ditches on the farm have any water in them. Going to start drilling Spring Wheat next week, I may even get to roll it if it stays like this!!