(1) This year the snowpack is at its lowest ever recorded, and they had the driest winter ever recorded.
(2) It had taken the two driest years since records began to get into the drought and even one month as wet as April would not be enough to get areas with water shortages to get out of it, said Aylard, even as Thames Water's specialist flood teams were in action.
(3) The long days here – Scotland has four hours more daylight than London during summer – are driest and sunniest in May and June, although July is the warmest and August is the time to catch the purple of the Highland heather.
(4) The driest March in 59 years , followed by the wettest June and autumn storms and flooding have reduced British fruit and vegetable harvests by more than 25% and left supermarkets unable to source their regular shaped, blemish-free produce.
(5) Last year was the driest year since record-keeping began in 1895, the report said.
(6) But last year, after back-to-back driest years in a century, federal water managers gave Arizona and Nevada a 50-50 chance of having water deliveries cut in 2016.
(7) Britain's second-driest spring in 100 years and the warmest since 1659 has left soil in parts of East Anglia and south-east England concrete-hard, with many rivers shrunk to trickles and crops withering at critical times in their growth.
(8) In May, the public sector research body, the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology , reported soils were some of the driest seen in England and Wales for at least 50 years.
(9) Terry Marsh, senior hydrologist at the CEH, said: "Late May soils were the driest on record across large parts of eastern and central England, causing substantial agricultural stress [and] impacting on crop yields.
(10) Spring across England and Wales was the driest since 1893.
(11) Jordan is the fourth driest country in the world, and every drop of water in the camps is driven there from outside boreholes.
(12) Last year was the driest in south-east England in 90 years, with only the summer recording normal levels of rainfall.
(13) Photograph: Alamy There’s extensive skiing at Easter in Sölden – even in the driest of winters.
(14) England, Wales and Scotland are likely to have their second driest September on record, with 13.5mm (0.5in), 11.9mm (0.4in) and 33.3mm (1.3in) of rain respectively.
(15) There are a few reasons almonds have become this season’s bad guy: A major spike in planting (25% from 2013 to 2014, according to statistics on sales of new almond trees), the increase in almond acres owned by investment firms, the fact that the majority of the state’s almonds are planted in one of its driest regions (San Joaquin Valley), and the skyrocketing demand for almond milk.
(16) The wettest location was Cluanie Inn, Wester Ross, which had 188mm of rain, while the driest was Leconfield in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
(17) Surveys were carried out six months apart in the driest and wettest months.
(18) "But it took the two driest years since records began for us to get into this drought, and one wet month, even one as wet as April, will not be enough to get us out of it."
(19) Some parts of Yorkshire have seen the driest 12 months since 1910 and river levels are continuing to fall, prompting the Environment Agency to urge farmers and businesses taking water from rivers to use supplies wisely.
(20) The population of larvae dropped to zero only for a short time during the driest period while the adult population was maintained at a low level.