Plenty of dusty rain gauges remain

Sally Cripps
Updated September 22 2015 - 2:35pm, first published January 13 2015 - 4:00am
John and Sheila Back are doing all they can to get moisture flowing into their rain gauge at Navarre, Ilfracombe, including adding an old cream separator to increase the catch.
John and Sheila Back are doing all they can to get moisture flowing into their rain gauge at Navarre, Ilfracombe, including adding an old cream separator to increase the catch.

ALTHOUGH John and Sheila Back jokingly poured some beer into their rain gauge at the weekend and commented that it was the first moisture it had seen for a long time, their situation, like many others in the west still waiting for rain, is serious.

Sally Cripps

Sally Cripps

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