"Col" wrote in message
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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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A thread earlier this week, started by JPG, prompted me go to the MODIS
site to look at today's image - given the clear skies over most places.
I downloaded the 11.20Z Terra 500m resolution image and cropped/enhanced
again.
It came from this larger image:



http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...12500.500m.jpg


Are you southern guys living in a desert or something?
The contrast is quite remarkable.


Went on the train to Weymouth last Saturday. Fields on the river gravel
west of Wareham are completely "burnt off", not a blade of green grass on
them. Similar experience a week or so beforehand in the area you mention
(near Windsor).

I live on the edge of the New Forest. Where we live is clay, not sand and
gravel, and normally lies "wet". The grass is now dying even on the heavy
clay. Haven't been to the "top" of the Forest recently (which is a gravel
plateau) but must be very barren up there now.

Bad news for the "commoners" (owners of the famous New Forest Ponies) if we
don't get rain PDQ. If it doesn't rain within the next two weeks or so, it
will be too late for any more grass growth this year, meaning the ponies
will either have to be taken off the Forest or the owners will have to go to
the expense of putting out hay for them.
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