Drought in Yorkshire

**sadkingbilly** · 12 June 2025, 12:41

**SimonMac** · 12 June 2025, 13:21

*Brews cuppa while looking out the window at the rain*

**Uncle Albert** · 12 June 2025, 13:27

I blame Sheffield.

No particular reason, the doylems just look shifty out that way.

Anyway, as long as we stick to supping our beer and leave water for the sheep, we'll be reyt.

**SueEllen** · 12 June 2025, 14:03

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

*Brews cuppa while looking out the window at the rain*

If the ground is already hard then the rain won't be able to penetrate into the ground which is why you want a wet Spring and Autumn.

**SimonMac** · 12 June 2025, 14:28

Originally posted by Uncle Albert View Post

I blame Sheffield.

No particular reason, the doylems just look shifty out that way.

Anyway, as long as we stick to supping our beer and leave water for the sheep, we'll be reyt.

Sheffield isn’t Yorkshire, anything below the M62 is France

**Uncle Albert** · 12 June 2025, 14:55

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

Sheffield isn’t Yorkshire, anything below the M62 is France

Absolutely. You a Loiner?

**willendure** · 12 June 2025, 22:27

Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

BBC News - Environment Agency declares drought across Yorkshire - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4zyq4rde4o

You've all been warned.

As predicted by myself.

1976
1983
1990
1997
2004
2011
2018
2025

Not all of those are drought years, and some that were were more severe than others. 1976 famously was. 2011/18/25 have all been. 83/90/97/04 were not exactly on those years, things shifted maybe a year either side, and whatever droughts were not bad. But there is definitely a strong cycle of 7 years to it.

2022 was a particularly strong drought. A bit out of sequence.

**jamesbrown** · 12 June 2025, 23:03

Back in my day, we used to dream a having the luxury of a drought. We were so poor, we lived in a lake, but not a proper lake, mind, it were a big puddle and it weren’t filled wi water neither, that were slurry and we were grateful for it.

**willendure** · 14 June 2025, 11:03

Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post

Back in my day, we used to dream a having the luxury of a drought. We were so poor, we lived in a lake, but not a proper lake, mind, it were a big puddle and it weren’t filled wi water neither, that were slurry and we were grateful for it.

I was on holiday in Wales in 2022 and got chatting to the local butcher about the drought. He said he remembered 1976 and it was way worse than 2022. All the water was turned off, but men were still working in the coal pits in those days. They came home at the end of the day completely black with coal dust head to toe and they had no water to wash in, a situation that went on for months.

Drought in Yorkshire