Bristol Water News.---Overall 74% full.  7% below companys guidlne..25% lower than last Year..

As to 16th July -- Chew Lake 76% full

                          Blagdon     79%  full

                          Cheddar Resovoir  63%  full

                          The Burrows    69%     full

All will  need   rainfall. 

I'm impressed to find myself on the 18th dry day in a row today, which is rivalling the longest dry periods seen in 2011 and early 2012.

Only one day has seen any rainfall this month, and that was 1.7mm.

As much as rainfall will be helpful for many, I'd have liked to see the dry weather last until the end of the month to give me another exceptional record for the books, but that's looking very unlikely at the moment... never mind eh?

If I get my first decent thunderstorm since 2006, I'll consider that reasonable payment

Thanks for the welcome. Things continue to get interesting, on Friday the call rate broke the 1000 mark for the first time since the 2011 riots, outside of that the last time we saw so many calls was in July 2006. No doubt some people saw the News on Friday with the large grass fires in London and elsewhere being reported. LFB had some relief yesterday but grass fires in some number were still reported.

Fine drizzle here damping the ground.

I expect my lawn at home is all dry and parched, the grass where I am here is.  Home is Thames water, their reserves and tables looked quite healthy  last time I checked,, also where I am now reservoirs were  mostly over 85% full.Not checked recently though.

Home 92.3mm since April.

Still hot dry and sunny both at  home and here

Walking on the grass now is like walking on corn stuble...All stiff and dry..Even the unwanted plants (weeds) are wilting...Just like me today... 

The Green at Hythe (should be re-christened as The Brown) not too far away from Folkestone could use a drop of the hard stuff now. As you can see, it is looking like a scene you expect to see at Sudia Arabia.

Beaautiful parched landscape Ian.  I was loving every minute looking at parched landscape from Worthing to Epsom on A24 and some areas was very parched and some 80% parched.  Also love the smell during the evening from the very dry ground.

What a great way of expressing it!

Last night's elevated decaying thunderstorms produced moderate precipitation... at elevation. At the surface there were only sporadic drops as much of it evaporated due to the dry surface air.

It's going to take a heathy storm to break this dry spell

Dry and drooping here..

Those water table levels have allowed me to enjoy the prolonged dry spell even more than would have been the case if Oct-Dec 2012 had been average or below for rainfall. I daresay that applies for a lot of other people as well, given that it's meant no hosepipe bans so far.

I can judge the 'water-state' quite well from walking down bridleways in the countryside; the extent of boggy stretches is a strong indicator of conditions, and as I do a lot of walking, I have a long record in my memory to reference conditions too.

Even after several weeks of dry weather and baking sun, there are still many areas of squidgy, damp mud to be found in shaded stretches. Those out in the sun have of course dried to stonelike structures. Back in May to early June 2011, there was hardly a damp bit of mud to be found anywhere. Conditions were almost as dry in March 2012. I reckon if conditions remain notably drier than average here*, the state seen in 2011 might be challenged by late August.

* had all of 0.4mm of rain over the past two days

Every time when we leave the car boot sales at Hook Road Arena fields, there a corner next to the dirt track that always remain damp with some puddles which we have to drive over it, last week was almost dried up but came back more last Sunday morning.  I think the water is leaking underneath and no one bother to repair it,  Cannot be from a spring in that area only spring water come out at Bourne Hall Lake that often stop coming up during summer seasons.  Still have spring water coming out there but declining slowly since I last checked it last weekend so by August it would stopped.

Today little rain here had ended the 19 very dry days.

^^ ditto. 0.2mm overnight brings the total to an absolutely sopping wet 9.2mm. All hail the Pennines.

Heavy deos at 23.44 Wednesday night but did not come to much..The ground was wet this morning due to more falling.Only another 6.1mm. but the dry spell has finished for this area at present.

Looking at Winchester's stats, last night produced the first measurable rain since the 3rd.

1.8mm, bringing the total to 4.8mm so a very dry month thus far. Quite possible that Alton is even drier