Dark Pink flowered tree in Desborough Road 12-04-2014 007

Very nice, big specimen. You get a lot of rain there, I'm guessing.

another beauty , I love this colour .....

Yes, Delonix, at least compared to San Diego! Yet we live in the driest region of the UK!

I'm sure you receive a tremendous amount of rain compared to San Diego. Our normal rainfall is about 10 inches (254 mm) a year; however, we've been lucky to receive 6 inches (152 mm) of rain a year, the last several years.

Well then we get about double your average (21 inches) which for a temperate maritime climate is pretty dry! :-))

You probably receive rain all year, though. We only get rain from Nov - Mar. November many times is rainless, though. Nov. is the sunniest month of the year...many times it can be quite hot due to the dry, hot Santa Ana wind conditions.

You are right, we do get rain through out the year.April this year has been unseasonably dry. But it seems that the month is forecast to finish on a wet cold note.

You're very lucky you receive rain throughout the year.

We have the very long historic drought conditions to look forward to over the many months. Water restrictions are the worst set on communities here in California's history. Most of California's reservoirs are on tract to dry up by the end of summer. This has never been recorded before.

WOW! You must be suffering a lot then! :-(( One of the worst years for drought here in the UK was when our 2nd son was born. We were living in Spain at the time & one of my brothers came over to visit us. He told us about the terrible conditions & how the army had been called out to help the councils set up standpipes & bring in tankers of water as the situation was so bad!

I lived in Spain for a great many years but never did we experience anything like that. I seem to remember some communities in the South East of Spain have had similar conditions & in fact the old Franco regime built an enormous aqueduct to take water from a normally very wet region to these communities that continuously faced drought. In fact I was in Spain when it was being built & saw stretches being built up. I still remember having passed under it at some point as it crossed a road I used to go along occasionally.

Trees also caused a lot of damage to house foundations as they sucked out whatever humidity in the ground they could find.

Yes, the water situation is very horrible! Every day the governor and the water districts of California are meeting to find out where we are going to buy water.

We've had many severe drought in the past; however, the droughts typically don't affect the whole state and all of the Western States.