Ghost Donkey said:
Nothing to worry about at in the Yorkshire area at least. Can't say about the others. Supplies are good. A dry autumn rather than the expected rain would cause problems for next year but this is a standard statement for every year.
I was out on my mountain bike on Saturday doing a 25 mile loop over the local hills (the westernmost part of West Yorkshire and parts of East Lancashire) and it was the driest I've seen it since the great Yorkshire drought of 1995. Several reservoirs were dry and most of the others had significantly lowered water levels. Bridleways which normally pass through peat bogs were dusty - it's dry, dry, dry!
When we had the drought in 1995, I noticed a remote farm still had a lush green lawn. It was a time when part of the M62 was coned off to allow a convoy of water tankers to stop on Scammomden dam to top up the reservoir's water level with water driven down from Kielder Water in Northumbria. That's probably all that kept us going until it rained again. Despite all of this, some idiot appeared to be watering his lawn, later comfirmed when I saw him doing it. I was thinking of reporting him but then it finally started raining again.