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London is gettin more and more mediterranean-like, I can't remember when our lawns in Poland were as yellow and we usually have highier temperatures and longer heatwaves during summer.
London is gettin more and more mediterranean-like, I can't remember when our lawns in Poland were as yellow and we usually have highier temperatures and longer heatwaves during summer.
I think brown grass is pretty common in summer in the south east of the UK and other parts of western Europe.. someone on here posted before that in the last 30 years, we have been csb (cool summer Mediterranean) on 14 of those years. It doesn't even have to be warm, this past May and June have been really dry, but May was below average, and June only very slightly above
I think a reason might be that the grass is hardly ever dormant in the UK, so it's pretty exhausted. Here it's dormant duing winter and full of life come summer.
As come on, we can be as warm/warmer, twice as sunny and have as little rain as London, but we never ever get that kind of grass except during exceptional drought.
London's grass is like a computer which has been continuously on for weeks, so no doubt it might be a bit jammed. Our grass is a computer which was put on just the other night, and obviously runs faster.
I think this fixation with brown grass is yet another attempt of making SE UK seem warmer, drier and sunnier than it actually is. Ugly it is at least.
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I think a reason might be that the grass is hardly ever dormant in the UK, so it's pretty exhausted. Here it's dormant duing winter and full of life come summer.
As come on, we can be as warm/warmer, twice as sunny and have as little rain as London, but we never ever get that kind of grass except during exceptional drought.
London's grass is like a computer which has been continuously on for weeks, so no doubt it might be a bit jammed. Our grass is a computer which was put on just the other night, and obviously runs faster.
I think this fixation with brown grass is yet another attempt of making SE UK seem warmer, drier and sunnier than it actually is. Ugly it is at least.
The grass is dormant. We don't have to cut it for months.
I think a reason might be that the grass is hardly ever dormant in the UK, so it's pretty exhausted. Here it's dormant duing winter and full of life come summer.
As come on, we can be as warm/warmer, twice as sunny and have as little rain as London, but we never ever get that kind of grass except during exceptional drought.
London's grass is like a computer which has been continuously on for weeks, so no doubt it might be a bit jammed. Our grass is a computer which was put on just the other night, and obviously runs faster.
I think this fixation with brown grass is yet another attempt of making SE UK seem warmer, drier and sunnier than it actually is. Ugly it is at least.
The grass goes brown simply because it's drier. The grass here is dry for about 3-4 months even with 100mm+ monthly rainfalls, because evaporation exceeds rainfall. In western parts of the region the grass rarely goes brown in summer due to much higher summer rainfall, but also grows quicker in winter than the grass around here due to greater warmth. So active growth throughout the year does not make the grass more susceptible to drought.
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