"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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Blizzard wrote:

Here in north kent everything is nice and green , i went down to brighton
and it was very brown...

A very localised drought.

Perhaps patchy would be a better word, but I take your point.
There is a long-term deficit but superficially things have improved.
My lawn (er, grass) is quite a good colour but there are *some* trees
round here that look knackered well before their time, although others
are healthy. I get the impression that the drought is slowly fading
away. Rainfall here is 45 mm so far in August which is slightly above
average.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.


Still well below average rainfall here Tudor, I am still waiting to reach 55mm
which would be half my monthly average of 110mm. However, all the trees up here
are fine and my grass, which was starting to go brown, is now growing strongly
again. The fortnightly cut will now start to take a bit longer :-(

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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