"Hyde Park looks like the Dubai desert": drought turns London's green parks into wastelands
El julio con menos lluvia de su historia convierte a las históricas praderas londinenses en descampados inhóspitos
London is considered to be the European capital with the largest volume of green spaces, but the drought that this summer is sweeping across much of the United Kingdom, the third in five years, has turned the city's famous parks, along with other historically green areas in southern England, into deserted landscapes, barren and arid regions more typical of the pampas than of one of the northern European countries.
Last month was particularly extreme, the driest July in England and Wales since records began in 1836. In the southern area of England, the impact has been even greater, with July becoming the driest month on record, with a residual 1% of the long-term average rainfall.
Translated by urgent.news from El Pais's report; automated translation may contain errors. Machine-written — it may contain errors, so check the original before relying on it.
