Will Hand wrote:
"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)

44mm here - haven't been here long enough for historical comparisons!

(Stogursey, W.Somerset)