Amazingly dry, this past month...
I walked past a local stream - the - near my home in Bradley Stoke today and was struck by how dry it was. Have a look below at the photo I snapped on my mobile 'phone.
Barely a trickle of water running through it and almost entirely overgrown with long grasses and weeds.
No fun for frogs: The Patchway Brook, running through Bradley Stoke, is almost devoid of water.It's hardly surprising, after such a prolonged spell of almost completely dry weather lately.
Weather-watcher has reported only 3.8mm of rainfall in his part of Bristol from 4 September until yesterday. Meanwhile , whose weather station in HorfieldÌýis closer to my district, has recorded even less precipitationÌý- a mere 1.4mm between the same dates. Incredible.
No wonder the Patchway Brook is more akin to the Patchway at the moment.
We will see some rain on Saturday, especially during the morning, but I'm not expecting the sort of deluge likely to turnÌýmy local brook into the sort of spectacular, small-scale raging torrent if often becomes during periods of very heavy rainfall.
I wonder what impact this lengthy lack of rainfall has hadÌýon the aquatic wildlife in these small urban brooks?
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