Calder valley dry as a stone. Great for walking and riding never known the moor so dry.
Not good for houses on a spring water supply. Ours ran out yesterday. Normally happens every few years but at the end of a long dry summer not in May.
Going to add an interesting element to the daily grind.
I blame the lack of cold and hard frosts in winter. Lack of freezing means what water we had on the moor puddled rather than sank to the freezing level and has since evaporated (primarily via the wind rather than the sun one assumes). It takes a good few days of cold weather to get the ground frozen beyond the first inch or so.
Fire also a risk there’s been a few isolated ones already, seen the fire brigade on ogden moor a few times already.