Dr Rob Thompson warned 'we should be careful what we wish for'
PARCHED LAND: A dried out field near Bristol, where the prolonged dry conditions, have left the parched land turning from green to brown
Posting a video of an experiment on Twitter, which used three glasses of water on different grass surfaces, Rob Thompson, part of the University of Reading’s meteorology department, demonstrated what happens when it rains after a drought. In the final experiment, the water is placed on to what appears to be dry grass and does not seem to budge, highlighting the potential for flash floods to occur if heavy rain follows a heatwave.
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