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Almost Three-Quarters Of England Now In Drought, UK Government Says

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Public Discourse · Bluesky · this story as of 6d ago
239 distinct posts / 48h, matching England 68 Government 59 Three 52 Almost 43 Says 37
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6d ago #climatecrisis #humanrights Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern #Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible www.theguardian.c… -8.0
6d ago South Korea city deluged by almost a metre of rain, triggering deadly landslide Torrential rain and flood kill nine in Japan amid wettest month in decades Mass evacuations in Beijing as Typhoon D… -8.0
6d ago 1/7 🇰🇷 DEADLY LANDSLIDES DEVASTATE SOUTH KOREA 🇰🇷 Almost a metre of torrential rain deluged the southern city of Geoje, triggering mudslides and forcing mass evacuations. Source: The Guardian #W… -7.5
6d ago Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return: Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme h… -8.0
6d ago Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme he… -7.0
6d ago No doubt flooding will almost certainly be on the cards either during or after the first deluge. Welcome all the same. -2.0
6d ago Not bad, our house in the lee of Haleakala more-or-less so mostly rain and some wind but no damage here or flooding. Almost everywhere else a bit of a mess tho. Most people have no power OR cell, (… +3.5
6d ago Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions, resulting in restrictions on water use in many areas and severe wildfires – here's how it's affecting farming, wildlife and trees ×4 -5.0
6d ago youtu.be/0x9MjPFrxT4 History is being revealed by dead/almost dead grasses & crops caused by drought. It’s as if the soil is telling us that just like our ancestors, we’re here such a short time,… -6.0
6d ago We went from temperatures feeling like 107°F to blinding rain and severe weather with wind gust to almost 50 miles an hour! -1.5
6d ago Ima have to prune one of my plants when it gets cooler. This heatwave done cooked it even though it rains almost everyday. -2.0
6d ago It's been hot and raining off and on for like a week here in WV, so walking around today was like being in a constant sauna. Disgusting. Not to mention that some students almost certainly are deali… -2.5
6d ago I'm now in my 14th year of living in this area almost on the seafront in Brighton and as such we have a large seagull population within a small estate. This is the first time the seagulls have not … -3.0
6d ago still honestly absolutely baffled by LNER still running an old train with the heating on in a carriage during a heatwave in England when they charge us SO much to travel, give their bosses and shar… ×2 -7.0
6d ago Can we talk about how almost the entire state of Indiana is in the dark because of flooding? And I’ve only seen it on TikTok -4.0
6d ago I live in Charlotte NC and I am darned tired of the heat wave we've got. I am almost rooting for an active but mild hurricane season to commence as that signals an unequivocal change from unseasona… -2.0
6d ago Most recent heatwave data not yet in, but so far this year almost 3000 people have died in the UK and 'heat-associated' deaths was the cause. I don't suppose they, or the people who cared about the… -3.5
7d ago Wonder how his views would change if he'd actually done a days work in his life sweating in the mid-heatwave sun doing a backbreaking job to then almost die in a train derailment on his journey hom… -7.0
7d ago Not all coastal area's are getting enough rain Maybe not in your area, but Cape Cod (in MA USA) is becoming more arid It used to be a humid sandbar, but for several summers it is in almost constant… -4.0
7d ago Banshee: It started drizzling over here as well, has been very gloomy this morning, almost fall-like. Wish we could get more than a drizzle as we need it. But you gotta be careful what you ask for … -1.5
7d ago The heatwave caused almost 2900 deaths in the UK up to the end of July. Richard Tice thinks poor people should stop complaining and just die quietly. www.bmj.com/content/394/... -8.0
7d ago In my area, so far we’ve had rain and thunderstorms almost everyday in August ! Today is yet another WEATHER ALERT DAY!! I’ve hidden in my laundry room twice during tornado warnings because the si… -5.5
7d ago If the reports' worst case does happen we gon be almost one month in the typhoon shits -6.0
7d ago We talked about taking the baby trees to a nursery but that super typhoon DID knock out almost all the other trees in our yard and so we have some great spots to put trees and mama tree grew so wel… +1.5
7d ago Almost the end of the heatwave with even some little clouds for a change +4.0
7d ago Switzerland: Heat Wave, Water Shortage Due to the heat wave and excessive water withdrawal using barrels and submersible pumps, almost all public fountains have been shut off. blue-community.net/b... ×2 -6.0
7d ago #UK Top posts x reach yesterday | https://laxt.info 1⃣ Marco Rubio has unique power to promote peace, but he hasn’t. He is almost … 2⃣ The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for Ope… -2.5
7d ago Oh I hope so! It’s so sad looking at the rest of the country. It’s been ok here, not that hot, more rain than almost anywhere else… Just such a shame it’s not been a little wetter everywhere. I don… +5.0
7d ago “Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions, resulting in restrictions on water use in many areas and severe wildfires – here's how it's affecting farming, wildlife and trees” w… ×4 -4.0
7d ago OMG….Here we go again, almost on the same day as two years ago when we had that bad hailstorm! They just finished the work on our house. 😩 -3.0

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The colored bar shows position on the scale. Emotion badge uses Plutchik's 8 primary emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation.
T3 Almost Three-Quarters Of England Now In Drought, UK Government Says weather_drought deccanchronicle.com parched, worrying, severe
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T3 Almost Three-quarters Of England Declared In Drought weather_drought finanznachrichten.de parched, alarmed, desperate
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T3 Drought declared in 'almost three-quarters' of England weather_drought jamaicaobserver.com parched, alarming, urgent
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