Driest six months in Huddersfield for 19 years

Jul 8 2009 by Joanne Douglas, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A spokesman for Yorkshire Water said: “Our stocks remain high at the moment.

“We don’t have any worries about them.

“Because of the way the system works as soon as we identify a problem in any part of Yorkshire we can pump water through our underground pipes so we can transfer water from East Yorkshire to West Yorkshire if it is needed.

“But we always try to use the local source of water and that’s what the situation is throughout Yorkshire at the moment.”

Meanwhile DEFRA predicts the effect of climate change will lead to even higher temperatures across Yorkshire.

Findings show that all regions across the UK have already experienced an increase in average temperatures between 1961 and 2006 annually and for all seasons.

In Yorkshire, assuming high levels of emissions, 2020 would see an increase in winter mean temperature of 1.3ºC, an increase in summer mean temperature of 1.3ºC while summer rainfall would be down 4%.

Overall this means hotter, drier summers and wetter, warmer winters.

By 2080 Yorkshire could be hit by a winter mean temperature of 3.6ºC and an increase in summer mean temperature of 4.2ºC. Summer rainfall would be down by over a quarter at -27%.