In her novel, The Case Is Closed, author Patricia Wentworth makes reference to "the drought of 1933." In a paper called "An historical analysis of drought in England and Wales" by Gwyneth Cole and Terry Marsh, we find 1933-34 listed as one of the "major droughts" in recent British history.
"Major drought. Intense across southern Britain. Severe surface water impacts in 1933 followed by severe groundwater impacts in 1934, when southern England heavily stressed." A graph in this paper shows that 1933 had one of the ten highest aridity indices since 1766. And we know that in this country as well, during that period we had the Dust Bowl days. So things evidently were dry all over.
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