well, finally after monthes of praying for a deluge it finally came last nite. big downour for about 12 hours and the river noicely up about 20 inches..at last we can get some proper sea trouting in..i'm soo happy i could cry

Driest spell for 69 years apparently. It has really knackered a lot of small streams in eastern Scotland, with farmers making it far worse with unbridled abstraction. 'Custodians of the land' my ****. Sepa do nothing!

A quick question, Neil. Last time I was in Cork, admittedly a long time ago, there werent any orchards. Do they import the pulp, or grow the apples in Southern Ireland? Is there an actual cricket team from Clonmel?

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was the same down here, no heavy rain for about 3 months.

warrenslaney, not too sure being honest, i'd imagine imported although i do think they have some of their own orchards..as to whether they hav a cricket team i wouldnt know...thats about 100 miles from me...

Not much better in SW Scotland , LDO.

The net result of 6 hours reasonably heavy and and constant rain this morning .

And that's about 3'' higher than it was yesterday

If thats SW scotland then my local wont be up much either then Seriously need some rain just to clean the system out

my local stream was the same. some of the longer pools were literally at a standstill, more like stillwater fishing. one area which in april was about waist deep had dropped to about 14 inches..hopefully thing will freshen up now..