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The National Drought Group (NDG) met on Monday 18 March, chaired by Harvey Bradshaw, Executive Director at the Environment Agency, to assess the latest water resource situation and actions being taken to reduce risk for the summer. How about taking on board messages from experts like David Attenborough in their own programmes and reflecting the reality of drought conditions in many parts of England?
Fish rescue The combination of a drier than average 3 years, high water consumption and climate change means that our environment is suffering. UK drought portal showing the SPI-12 (rainfall averaged over the last 12 months) for the period July 2018–June 2019). Although water companies do not currently expect any restrictions this summer, the NDG members expressed concerns about pressure on farmers and the environment. Presenters cannot change the weather, but their lack of coverage of the urgent need for rainfall goes beyond irritating – it is a dereliction of duty.‘Wildlife, gardeners, farmers and all who care about the environment are desperate for proper rainfall,’ writes Linda Lennard.‘Wildlife, gardeners, farmers and all who care about the environment are desperate for proper rainfall,’ writes Linda Lennard.aul Brown is spot-on in his criticism of how weather forecasts and presenters ignore the continuing drought ( All the latest analysis on weather events and their effect on farming and growing . UK cereals supply and demand estimates.
Today at the NDG, we heard that farmers across all sectors are nervous about the risk of drought in 2019 and below average rainfall will reduce production and increase costs for most of them. UK weather: temperatures near 35C on hottest day of year so far Temperature hits 34C in Northolt and at Heathrow airport, with London hotter than Hawaii Published: 29 Jun 2019 But how will that affect farming in 2019? GB animal feed production. The fires have created many air pollution problems for the UK. The graph shows the SPI-12 time series for the highlighted catchment (Great Ouse) We encourage sharing and trading of water as a number of members did in 2018. An update to the water company drought plan guideline: 2019 - GOV.UK Much of England and Wales received less than 65% of average rainfall from May 1975 to August 1976, with some parts of southern England receiving less than 55%. The causes of most of the fires have been attributed to much higher than average temperatures and drought conditions that have prevailed since the spring of 2018.
We're seeking views on changes to the water company drought plan guideline (WC DPG) and the new and updated supplementary guidance. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Presenters continue to welcome hot and dry weather, and often refer disparagingly to “the risk of rain”.