Will Hand wrote:
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Just looking ahead a bit and quite honestly I cannot see much chance
of
substantial rainfall this Spring. The pattern is still essentially
blocked with high pressure predicted to remain close to UK for next
couple of weeks (after a
brief spell of rain/sleet/snow early this week) and at this time of
year zonal
flows are not exactly normal anyway. I fear that parts of England,
particularly
the SE, are going to have serious problems with water this year.

I was just about to say that we seem to have had four consecutive dry
months in the south, something which hasn't happened in quite a while I
think. Looking back over the past 15 years or so, we seem to have got
alternating "dry" and "wet" episodes, with a persistently dry spell
Autumn 1988-Spring 1992, a wet spell Summer 1992-Winter 1995, another
dry spell Spring 1995-Autumn 1997 and a further, and long, wet spell
throughout the five years 1998-2002. Since 2003 the weather has been
noticeably drier.

Also walking in the countryside this winter, particularly since
Christmas, has been significantly less prone to "muck and mire" than
the last few years....

Nick