Wednesday 5 May 2010

No Rain (to quote Blind Melon)




Well actually a bit of rain but not very much. The total for the year so far (Jan to Apr - 4 months) is 256 mm and this is only 65 % of what Flanders Moss would normally get. I realise that most people would think this is good news but a bog manager looks at things in a different way and little rain means a drying out bog. The pools on the Moss are starting to dry up a bit but things are too bad yet but when the daytime temperatures start to rise so increasing evaporation and the trees come into leaf and start to suck water out of the Moss then the water levels drop faster. So a bit more rain over May would be nice, .......but I won't say it too loudly.