"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:46:22 +0100, Albert wrote in


... Talking of April showers, a pesky one has just ruined our drought.
0.2
mm of rain, not enough to do the garden any good at all, now already
almost evaporated, just enough to tip the rain gauge (you could hear it
balanced on the edge), but just enough bringing to an end 18 rainless
days. This is the fourth longest drought in my records, and not that far
short of the record 21 days in summer 1999.

This rain wasn't forecast; indeed, none was forecast until Thursday.
It's
all very annoying.

Trevor Harley
Lundie, 10 miles NW Dundee
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/


I would hardly call 18 rainless days a drought.

See Trevor's page on this he

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~ta...iscdrought.htm

or in Martin Rowley's pages;

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.w...htm#AbsDrought

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 17/04/2007 09:52:15 GMT

Well, that may be the technical definition (of which I was unaware), but it
does seem a very petty moan up after what has been experienced in the south
east over the last two years. I doubt if the water companies use that
criteria.

Maybe with global warming, the definition will have to change soon.