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- 000930 Drought in October As we turn the corner into October this autumn seems to
be running true to type, recent weeks producing several days of wet and
windy weather
- 010622 The drought of 1976 A generation has now grown up with no memory of the
famous summer of 1976, for exactly a quarter of a century has now passed
since that
- 011124 Drought in November There has been practically no rain in southern England during the last
four weeks: just 5mm (one-fifth of an inch) has fallen at Bognor, Torquay,
- 020420 The spring
drought of 2002 April
has a justified reputation for being a dry month, and droughts at this
time of the year are regarded with apprehension in farming circles
- 031025 The long drought of 2003 Late-October downpours eased the drought in parts of
southern England and eastern Scotland but amounts of
rain in the Midlands, East Anglia
- 031101 Dry Novembers Of all the months of the year, November is the least
likely to be dry. Rainfall shortages are, of course, less noticeable at
this season because the lack of
- 020120 Rain shadow "Rain shadow" is a phrase often used by
meteorologists in their day-to-day work, and is occasionally mentioned by
television weather forecasters. Some
- 021013 The autumn drought of
2002 The rains
finally arrived in the east of England yesterday after
one of the longest autumn droughts in recent times. Much of the Midlands
- 030223 Does dry air mean a
drought? "Scotland drier than the Sahara Desert" ran the
television news trail on Tuesday evening. It sounds like a good story;
sadly it was based
- 030330 Droughts are most common in spring Droughts are
probably more common in spring than at any other season in Britain, but there have
been only a few in March in
- 030427 The spring drought of 2003 After seven weeks of dry weather the rain finally
returned towards the end of April, in desultory fashion at first, but a
broad belt of rain
- 030824 The summer drought of 2003 Last week brought
abundant rain to the western highlands but for the rest of the UK amounts of rain
have been derisory or non-existent. At
- 030914 Overnight dew
feeds the grass In
the arid wastes of what was once green English countryside in East Anglia and the
southeast Midlands, the grass is
no longer quite as
- 031019 The autumn drought of 2003 There have been dry Octobers before, but it is eight
years since the last one, so you might be forgiven for thinking that they
have gone out of
- 031123 Winter droughts At this time of the year a drought creeps almost unseen
through the winter landscape. Gardens are dank, trees drip, playing fields
are muddy, roads and
- 9606xx The Yorkshire Water drought, 1995 Everyone remembers the summer of ’95.
Record-breaking, it was; a sun-blessed
VE-Day bank holiday, an epidemic of sunburnt
- 9609xx More on the Yorkshire Water drought Viking invaders in Huddersfield and Halifax studiously checking their
rain-gauges every morning before going out on the pillage
- 9702xx Water shortages in the Southeast Importing water from France through the Channel Tunnel –
that is one of the latest wheezes dreamt up by one of the water-supply
- 9704xx Drought leads to
duststorms We have had all the usual
drought stories – the water-shortages and hosepipe bans, the rising price
of vegetables, the threat of climate