to get irritated with people complaining that there can't be a drought because it's rained for a week?

[madmouse]

We will need a lot more rain than this to replenish our reservoirs. The main reservoir near here is very low and some flights of canal locks will be closed this summer unless it keeps pouring. It's been too dry since before last summer! And we've had far too dry a winter (It's true, I cycle to work and didn't get wet nearly as often as usual)

YANBU. People have no concept at all, do they??!!! The ground was so dry that a lot of the initial rain just went to wetting it, and there was absolutely no run off.

The real help with rain is that people aren't outside wasting using water and emptying the reservoirs even more.

I think people are just making conversation. We love talking about the weather!

It's just ironic the way it's turned out madmouse and people love to moan!

A friend of a friend of mine is married to a climate scientist and the word is that we would need double the usual amount of rainfall between now and August in order to get out of drought. He's not hopeful... sigh.

YANBU. Some people are absolutely thick.

I also am not quite sure what people are using their hosepipes for? As in, your average joe, not nurseries or farmers etc.

Oh... I just saw the other thread. They're only having a laugh!!!! 'Tis a little funny, really, how it turned out.

Hey how cool is this?? Reservoir Watch. You can see the levels in the reservoirs every month.

I started on of the other threads. I'm country bred, have land and animals. I am fully aware that we need way more rain, the price of hay and animal feeds is sky high. However, my fields are waterlogged, the grass isn't growing still, because it's drowning my animals are losing condition through being wet and cold, I am having to supplement their diet, and I have a raging cold myself from being permanently wet and chilled. I was being ironic, in starting my thread, but quite frankly, I don't care about what you think. As the possessor of those problems, I feel quite entitled to be hacked off!
The same way that I was entitled to be hacked off last year, when it was too dry, th grass didn't grow through lack of water, and the price of hay and feed went even higher than ever, and I had to supplement their diet.

This is the kind of thing which kicked off when the umpteen-year long drought in Oz broke.

Climate change is bollocks, they said. It's raining - and, actually, it is. Right now.

But it could stop again. They just don't get it.

Morons.

yanbu
we have had 2 really dry winters, it will take a massive ammount of rain to get us back to normal.

Oops it seems that this has come across as a thread about a thread - it's not!!

Saggy if that is how it came across to you, sorry!

I was talking about my neighbours here and people on fb. Not anyone for whom the weather causes professional difficulty.

Somebody (not me) Told me this: "We know somebody who worked for the water board all their life. They told us there is not a water shortage. There is more than adequate supplies to last us. In addition to this, they have reserve supplies. They also said that they do this deliberately to frighten people into using less water unnecessarily and there isn't the remotest chance of even coming close to running out"

I'm not saying we aren't short of water. We probably are, it hasn't rained much all winter.
It's been lovely, the river hasn't flooded the road to school once this year. I think that's only happened once before (when the council dredged the river) in 10 years.
Unfortunately we're now paying for it.

I'm just stating it's bloody typical that as soon as it's official we have a drought it bloody rains!

It's still raining, the farmers will be very happy. DD2 who's meant to be outside this afternoon won't be.

Also when you hear about burst water mains that waste huge amounts of water tis hard not to whinge.

Hard not to mutter when confronted with days long pissing down rain.
Let us moan!!!!!

I think people are probably just having the ususal british weather whinge and are fed up with the miserable weather. I'm sure most people with a bit of common sense realise a couple of weeks of rain won't sort out a drought :)

i drives me bloody mad, too.

maybe they should cast their minds back to a whole month of no rain at all, or a tiddly bit of snow.
the reservoirs are lower than they've ever been, and here in kent where we rely on underground water, those sources are running on empty.

Saggy - is there any way to improve drainage on your land?
round here, there are loads of fields that get properly waterlogged (clay soil
but some farmers have taken the flints from the grain soil and dug it into the pasture land to improve drainage.
a big job, but might be worth looking into?

I think most people realise that one week of rain doesn't make up for 2 years of unusually dry weather. However, the timing of this rain does suck. Also, people are angry that the bastard water companies have continually failed to invest in infrastructure which could have ameliorated the current crisis and chose instead to simply post fuck off profits.

Unfortunately I only rent so I have to put up with the sogginess!
Don't worry, as I've just told the OP, I'm just a grumpy cow today as I've turned into a giant snot ball and I can't get anything done!

wasabi - things like updating old pipe systems and fixing leaks, you mean....

sorry saggy - hope you feel better soon [warm socks]

YANBU.

Also people who question global warming when it snows for two days in a row.

YANBU.

Quenelle, just have a watch of this - explains it all!

sairygamp I can believe that!

Can't they just put a massive funnel over the UK, concentrating all the rain into reservoirs and bypassing our heads? Win-win situation.