image of very dry wildflower bed at the forest Gate Community Garden in August 2026

Drought and Climate Change, Sunday 23 August 2026

We had a couple of millimetres of rain last week, but that soon evaporated in the heat. The last decent downpour was on 27 June. There is a hosepipe ban, but one cannot complain, reservoirs are low, rivers low. Farmers are suffering, their crops have awful yields, some they have given up on. It’s no good looking to Europe, the …