All we’ve had since 30th May was the dust dampener last Friday. My WS isn’t recording so I don’t know what the amount was but I’m pretty sure it would have registered. 

We live on several metres of London clay but haven’t yet seen any new cracks. The house has subsided a lot in the past and is leaning all over the place but has been for years.

As for this country being f***ed, kids would have been setting fire to grassland during droughts in the 16th century, and every century before or since. And the police have always been overstretched. Back in the 70s they were also running off to Margate on bank holidays and leathering each other while the coppers looked on. Nothing new under the sun. 

Met Office is giving a 70% chance of rain here on Friday. Last rain was 0.2mm on July 20, before that it was June 17.

Currently in pas de Calais where everything is every bit as yellow as Southern England. A few distressed and autumnal looking trees by the roadside too.

While you're there, tell the Frogs they can shove their horrible cheese and wine where the sun don't shine, when we Brexit will no deal

Really hoping for some rain over the next few days. Interestingly (well, to me at least) the birch tree at the top of my garden has lost lots of leaves and has turned mostly brown while all the other trees near it - apple, plum, rowan, cherry, oak look absolutely fine with no stress evident at all. The eucalyptus tree which has grown at an astonishing speed in ten years has been dropping leaves since May but I know they have very shallow roots, I assume birch must have too?

Or roots that are neither shallow nor deep enough. Next door have a couple right next to our garden and even up in Aberdeenshire they are shedding their leaves early (they blot out the sun on bits of my veg patch so im not fussed). We have had an OK amount of rain over the last week and back in June I was hosing down the veg patch regularly (next to the trees) but I don't think it has permeated deep enough to get to the tree roots.

A carpet of yellow/brown leaves here along verges so it looks like Autumn.  I’ve given up on the lawns but giving the borders a soaking on a weekly basic and they’re looking good, although I planted them thickly this year so they’re losing less to evaporation.

Notts Fire and Rescue are reporting call outs to grass fires are up by 600% on last July.  Thankfully we’ve had no serious forest fires as yet, the likes of which we’ve had in previous dry years, but the schools broke up yesterday!  

53 days of no precipitation in Lowestoft now!

- Arras to Reims, as dry as Southern U.K. with some seriously ill looking trees around Reims. A few areas of green haze where presumably recent showers have refreshed things.

- Reims to Troyes: less drought stricken but still quite brown, with some areas worse than others. Similar to England this year in early July

- Troyes southwards to Langres: yellowing, mainly on cut grass. Like England in early-mid June

- Langres into Burgundy, green and quite lush (and some puddles around), very much average summer conditions

- Oddly, once in the Maconnais south of Chalon sur Saone it’s back to browner and something approaching late June 2018 in England. I would guess this is a mix of warmer temperatures and some rain shadow effects in June during the Easterlies as the Jura and Alps start to rise due East of there.

Comment sont les jardins botaniques?

I haven’t seen. But my recently planted tree is dead, as is the erstwhile prolific parsley bush. 

Still no measurable rain for nearly 2 months. We missed out last Friday and today's action seems further north

But Sunday definitely we will get something, but 2 months of virtually nothing is incredible and will never be repeated in my lifetime

Did anyone miss last nights rain.

What rain?

The sky threatened it however as far as I know none fell here.

We got 7mm which brings the monthly total to 17mm, still a very dry month so far. Some fairly decent thunderstorms but nothing overhead.

We have missed the showers today, but they seem to have caused some chaos, e.g I cannot get a train to Leeds as it comes from York and there are problems.

No rain here last night but I am expecting our fair share very soon

No rain last night though there seemed to be some showers in the Bournemouth area heading north. We went to Poole last night to see Mission Impossible one side of family (me and son) and Jurassic Park the other. Having read the rotten tomatoes review I was one of the winners with the impossible mission. The tune does go round a bit. How do you get it out of your head?

Up early this morning to catch some mackerel off Chesil to smoke (see brexit thread) though I think they will be long eaten by next year. No fruit to freeze as we ate what little we grew this year. Famine time approaches when the JRM border gates are locked next year. But hey 50 years tis but a blink of the eye before the verdant sunny uplands come into view.

No potential drought now but a full blown monster of course with another large arsonic heath/grass fire visible as we drove into Poole last night.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-44977682

Once we leave the EU, our overseers will be able to re-introduce the death penalty or even transportation for arson and as it will be treason to oppose such a move we'll be able to run our own space programme to Mars with all the positive benefits that might accrue. 

Oops wrong thread I think.

Amazing - thought it was more widespead.

Still no rain here on the north downs, but it'll be difficult for the 60-day absolute drought to hold in the next 48 hours.