Environment

We hope everyone remembered to put the clocks forward for this morning.  I suspect a few might have forgotten and there may even be those who put their clocks back in error; it happens.  Tomorrow...

Over the last week, we had only 0.4mm of rain, so you might be tempted to think the water levels in the Tilshead aquifer and the River Till fell.  Well, no they didn't.  The river levels rose...

Spring has officially sprung, at least according to the Met Office, not that you would know it from the morning temperatures over the last couple of days.  That's because the Met office likes things...

A call to the Environment Agency last Monday and they quickly had an engineer out to fix the sensor in the borehole.  Thankfully, the sensor has a backup data storage capability, so none of the...

Houston, we have a problem!  Well, strictly, it's more a case of Environment Agency, we have a problem!  No data from the Tilshead borehole has been reported since 08:45 on 13th February.  It's...

Another week with very little rain; just under 7mm.  This meant that water levels in the aquifer rose sharply at the start of the period in delayed response to rain the week before, but since...

We had quite a bit of rain, nearly 50mm in fact, over the last week.  Quite a bit, but we may have escaped lightly compared to other parts of the south.  Fortunately, we have now had nearly 4 days...

Water levels in the Tilshead aquifer continued to rise until late on Tuesday and then began to drop again slowly.  We were then threatened by Storm Éowyn, an example of "explosive cyclogenesis" or...

The last couple of weeks have been most interesting on the aquifer front.  We've had remarkably little rain since the first week of January as shown here by Sandy Sims' weather station in St Peter's...

Although we only seemed to have a smidgen of snow and very little rain during the early part of the week, it was enough to swing the balance of the water in the aquifer towards an upturn. ...