Local Reservoirs

Provisional Met Office climate figures for April 2011 indicate that last month was the warmest on record with many parts of the UK seeing temperatures 3 to 5 °C warmer than normal. April 2011 was also the 11th driest in the UK, since records began in 1910.

The UK average temperature was 10.7 °C exceeding the previous warmest April on record of 10.2 °C in 2007.

The warm weather was also accompanied by mainly dry conditions throughout the month. The UK average rainfall total was 36.7mm - 52% of the long-term average. The exceptionally dry April followed a dry March, when less than half of the normal rainfall fell across the UK, also followed by a drier than average winter.

Despite the warmest April since records began the local reservoirs are not as low as those in other parts of the country.


July 2010

May 2011 - normally levels reach the darker brickwork on the bridge

In July last year this photograph was taken from beneath Nant Crew bridge on the Cantref Reservoir, but today enough water was still flowing down from Cwm Crew to deny access to the river bed beneath the bridge.


July 2010

May 2011

However, the water level around the overflow plug at Pontsticill Reservoir was considerably lower today then in January.


January 2011

May 2011