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The weather is mainly COLD and WET! The forests are also mainly COLD and WET! Nine out of ten forest fires here are caused by people rather than climate so this year there have been much fewer forest fires as people haven't been outdoors BBQing and leaving 'single-use BBQs' to smoulder in anywhere near the usual amount - because of the weather Of the attached maps the first, mainly blue, shows July rainfall this year. The second, mainly green, shows rainfall this July as a percentage of July rain in the years since 1991. July 2023 must have been, literally, a gift from heaven for the fire brigade! We did have four days of 'proper' summer weather in June and then the BBQers, and the fire brigade, were out in force.