Areas no longer in drought
The Environment Agency announced today that drought status has been lifted for:
- South Yorkshire
- East Yorkshire
- Cornwall
- Devon
- Dorset
- Somerset
- Bristol
- Areas of Gloucestershire
- Areas of Hampshire
- Most of Wiltshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Leicestershire
- Derbyshire
- Staffordshire
- West Midlands
- Warwickshire
- Shropshire
- Worcestershire
- Herefordshire
- Areas of East Anglia
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