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[mudd]

I love looking at those pics.

I was wondering… why is the grass so brown around the Golf Course? Is that unusual? I thought it would still be green this time of year.

[Hamish]

I love looking at those pics.

I was wondering… why is the grass so brown around the Golf Course? Is that unusual? I thought it would still be green this time of year.

Not being 'into' golf myself, I am not sure where this event took place, but many parts of the United Kingdom are suffering virtual drought conditions. We just experienced the driest and hottest July on record! Whilst some clouds have rolled in during August and it has been a little cooler, some areas have recently had flooding due to some massive thunderstorms. However, down here in this part of the south of England we've had one brief thunderstorm with about three minutes of light rain which did no good at all. The hosepipe ban, imposed in June last year, is still very much in force, most car-wash facilities are closed and civic fountains have been turned off (although they recycle their water, the fountains still need topping-up regularly!).

It is no wonder that the grass is the colour it is. I undertand that golf courses are permitted to water the actual greens, but nowhere else.

I take this opportunity of asking everyone who knows the steps, to get out there and do a neat Rain Dance on our behalf - please!!!

[Kilted KT]

Not being 'into' golf myself, I am not sure where this event took place, but many parts of the United Kingdom are suffering virtual drought conditions. We just experienced the driest and hottest July on record! Whilst some clouds have rolled in during August and it has been a little cooler, some areas have recently had flooding due to some massive thunderstorms. However, down here in this part of the south of England we've had one brief thunderstorm with about three minutes of light rain which did no good at all. The hosepipe ban, imposed in June last year, is still very much in force, most car-wash facilities are closed and civic fountains have been turned off (although they recycle their water, the fountains still need topping-up regularly!).

It is no wonder that the grass is the colour it is. I undertand that golf courses are permitted to water the actual greens, but nowhere else.

I take this opportunity of asking everyone who knows the steps, to get out there and do a neat Rain Dance on our behalf - please!!!

are you saying that it is actually DRY in the brittish isles? I thought is was miserably rainy almost every day of the year?!?

[Robin]

It was hot...it was dry...the grass became dust.

My MacLaren modern kilt looked muted at the end of the day

[Hamish]

are you saying that it is actually DRY in the brittish isles? I thought is was miserably rainy almost every day of the year?!?

We certainly had that reputation, KT, until a few years ago. The typical British summers being one wet day after another has been a stereotypical joke for years, but global warming seems to have wrought some changes and the past several summers have been reliably and progressively hot and sunny - our winters unusually dry and milder too. The West and the North of the British Isles still receives a lot more rain than the East and South, but I should imagine that, like us, they are getting less than they used to.

It is being said by horticulturalists that, if these conditions prevail, within 50 years the south of England will be as the Mediterranean is now, and we simply will be unable to grow many of the plants and shrubs we have enjoyed all these years. We'll have Olives and Peaches instead of Apples and Pears!!!

[efer]

Great pics Robin!

It looks like one great holiday

Cheers,