Some completely disjointed observations...
Huge piles of uprooted water lilies around a birdlake I sometimes stroll around. Apparently, the hot and humid summer made the water lilies proliferate so much, that the park authority had to start removing them. Few birds at the birdlake, though. Did the birds go elsewhere to feed?
Another birdlake: the lake is almost invisible to strollers, since a thick "green wall" of enormous reeds and weeds have grown up around it. It looks like the setting of some weird apocalyptic road movie. The jogging trail around the lake is flooded, probably by recent torrential rain falls.
In Slovakia and Hungary, the water in the river Danube stands so low, that "famine stones" from the 10th century have become visible. They have been under water for 1,000 years! Yes, a "famine stone" is a memorial marker showing where the waterline was during a literal famine...
In France, the drought has created problems for the nuclear power industry, since there isn´t enough water to cool the reactors.
Probably just another Milankovich cycle. Right?
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