On 2007-04-17 12:36:58 +0100, "Albert" said:
I would hardly call 18 rainless days a drought.
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.

But it IS the formal definition; let's not use language to mean what we
want it to mean.

And I know most of the world lives in the southeast, but these sparsely
populated wildernesses more than 50 miles awat from Surbiton do
sometimes have interesting weather events - interesting, at least, to
us. As I think I said, this is our longest drought since 2003. That
makes it noteworthy.

Me - I'm always amazed how people in the south think -2C is "extremely
cold", and how a few flakes of snow brings civilisation to a halt.


Trevor Harley
Dundee