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30mm in the southeast tomorrow??!
So says Carol on BBC. Well that would upset some of the August statistics!
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30mm in the southeast tomorrow??!
"Tom" wrote I think it's about time some rain fell. Driving through Essex
is like going. through a desert. Guess we are lucky there has not been any widespread fires like in other European heatwave areas. But not as brown and shrivelled as I might have expected. The cornfields are barren and very dusty after the harvest and subsequent ploughing and replanting (the amount of dust harvesting itself generated was remarkable, with all my windowcills getting covered, day after day [an observation, not a complaint] but the trees and verges are still remarkably green around here). One tree that is worth mentioning is the poor old willow. They *are* yellow, with piles of dropped leaves around their bases. All the others, I think, look fairly normal for this time of year. My lawn looks Saharan but IME it will only take 10 days of damp weather to have it looking as though the drought had never occurred. The large cracks that have opened up in the garden (shrinkable clay) will, I think, still be there (again, IME) in November. - Tom Blackmore, SW Essex. |
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