Day 3. Rain stopped play

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No need to get wet

we have all the time we need

plan for tomorrow

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by Scooj

Drink

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Parched landscape, hard rain

oh! to hear the ground groaning

drinking a long drink

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by Scooj

  • Yesterday my area (one of the last in the country) fell into a Temporary Use Ban (TUB), more commonly known as Hosepipe Ban. This is an administrative stage in the drought management process and is designed to slow the demand on water resources. Although the groundwater situation is generally good after a very wet winter, rivers and reservoirs are very low, and it will take a long period of persistent rain to recover them. All the while people are still using water in high volumes, hence the ban.

Waterlogged

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Rain on rain on rain

dog-trodden garden mud bath

dreaming of sunshine

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by Scooj

Meanwood Beck

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After days of rain

swollen beck roars to the Aire

once powering mills

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by Scooj

Leeds

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Rain-soaked dull sandstone

constant looming overcast

home of my father

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by Scooj

Road river

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Thunder heavy rain

cascading over dry ground

overflowing drains

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by Scooj

Summer ends

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A perfect summer

ends with a grand finale

rain showers forecast

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by Scooj

  • It looks like today might be the last sunny and warm day of a glorious summer, but the lack of rain has caused all sorts of problems for farmers and nature, so the rain forecast for the next couple of weeks is actually very welcome.

Return to normal

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Dry yields to dampness

new vegetation unleashed

April showers return

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by Scooj

A paradox?

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Outside rain crashes

I’m singing in the shower

did I miss something?

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by Scooj

Resumption

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It just couldn’t last

a warm weekend taste of spring

yields to wind and rain

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by Scooj