Post #3992262
2026-07-21 08:11 UTC
4/3 (oops) The cause of this drought is a high pressure system sitting mid-Atlantic which is being caught between southern weather patterns pushing north and northern ice melt/higher temperatures pushing northern weather fronts south.
This high is storing heat out at sea and evaporating sea water which currently has nowhere to go. While we are all needing rain, the likely outcome of a summer weather pattern like this is storms- and storms which have been powered by a continuous high pressure ‘battery’ or energy store for weeks.
This is so very far from the normal tracking of weekly changeable weather across the Atlantic to the Western Seaboard of the UK it is hard to imagine or prepare for - there’s certainly a lot of unpredictability in it - but in basic terms we are likely to be in for a wild autumn after such a hot summer.
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@tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social 2026-07-21 08:32
@Janet_52square@sunny.garden I agree. Down south im at risk of losing fruit trees which went in a few years ago and have already lost a fair bit of my food crops due to the drought. Hand watering due to hosepipe restrictions but you can only do so much. The berries are early in the hedges but signs indicate a wild and mild autumn so the woods are going to be treacherous with all the weakened root plates on the old standards. Planting trees to offset your carbon output only works if the woodlands are going to live and even then it’s gambling on the future.