{"id":454310,"date":"2025-09-27T02:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/454310\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T02:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:52:14","slug":"drought-status-lifted-in-wales-after-rainy-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/454310\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought status lifted in Wales after rainy September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South-west Wales moved into prolonged dry weather status on 22 May, and has now moved into recovery from prolonged dry weather status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NRW said its teams would continue to monitor river flows, as well as groundwaters which respond to rainfall more slowly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Groundwaters remain a concern, with some still exceptionally low for the time of year, it added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Thomas said: &#8220;Sufficient rainfall throughout the autumn will now be essential for river flows and groundwaters to fully recover before next spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While September has brought some significant rainfall \u2013 even leading to flood warnings and surface water flooding incidents \u2013 in some areas we are still seeing rivers regressing back after the rainfall has landed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a sign of the extreme pressure our environment has been under during this exceptionally dry period.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South-west Wales moved into prolonged dry weather status on 22 May, and has now moved into recovery from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-454310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115273999556412597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}