It's drizzling today in Antwerp, Belgium. YEAY!!!!
Article about the extreme drought in Belgium
And also drought in Ireland:
Met Éireann have tweeted that it's the driest spring (Mar,Apr,May) in Dublin since records began. (as far back as 1850 at Phoenix Park). Stats from 3 Dublin weather stations:
Phoenix Park total 52.6mm driest spring since records began in 1850.
Dublin Airport total 54.1mm driest spring on record (length 78 years).
Casement Aerodrome total 62.5mm driest spring on record (length 56 years).
And in the UK :
Professor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, told BBC News: “We’ve swung from a really unsettled spell with weather systems coming in off the Atlantic to a very, very settled spell.
“It’s unprecedented to see such a swing from one extreme to the other in such a short space of time. That’s what concerns me. We don’t see these things normally happening with our seasons.
“It’s part of a pattern where we’re experiencing increasingly extreme weather as the climate changes.”
Mark McCarthy, from the Met Office, said: “If we look at the difference in rainfall that’s fallen over the winter compared to spring it is the largest difference in rainfall amount in our national series from 1862.
“The sunshine statistics are really astounding.
“The stand out is by how much sunshine has broken the previous record - set in 1948. There’s been more sunshine than most of our past summer seasons. It's quite remarkable."
One of his colleagues described the figures as "absolutely staggering"
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52877912