First thing in the morning I'm onto BBC weather to see what rain is coming down the line, but also what rain has fallen in the catchment overnight. So in my part of the world Rhayader is saved as a favourite. When I click on 'observations' it tells me exactly what precipitation has fallen in the last twelve hours.
I then go to 'river levels' starting right up at the source of the Wye and then down through Builth Wells and Glasbury to see what will be happening in Hereford twelve hours hence. (It usually takes water 12 hours to get from Glasbury to Hereford)
Now all this is well and good when its raining but all the Atlantic depressions for the last six months or so have been blocked by High Pressure systems over Europe. And now many of the Wye tributaries are drying up. These are not chalk streams so there is no sub surface water emerging.
The river Dore, home to some very large grayling, is now just a series of puddles and the EA people are out rescuing what remains of the fish stock.
Challenging times.....
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Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
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Worrying times indeed Troydog. Down here in Kent we had a dull drizzly summer with the exception of one good four week period from mid June into July, but no proper rain, the previous winter and spring had been unusually dry and now Southern Water are calling for a drought order...Bewl water our largest reservoir is only a third full
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Same situation over here in Belgium, the rivers are very low, lakes almost empty. Very worrying situation. Bobby
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Incredible really gentlemen. Is it global warming or just seasonal fluctuations? I don't know whether anyone really knows......
Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
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