{"id":66,"date":"2026-09-10T05:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.famethemes.com\/techone\/?p=66"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:43:43","slug":"always-raining-in-blaenau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"The Driest Summer in History Causes Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in Blaenau and Llan Ffestiniog are seeking therapy after the recent dry<br \/>\nsummer, which left residents going weeks without rain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1578\" src=\"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/The-Bollocks-Issue-15.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"62\" \/><br \/>\nLocal Councillor Gwyneth Glawio said, \u201cIt\u2019s just not normal; it\u2019s always raining in<br \/>\nBlaenau, yes we get the odd day without rain, but the last few months have been a<br \/>\nliving hell; we\u2019re just not equipped for it\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists have warned that global warming could lead to longer periods of<br \/>\ndry weather in future.<\/p>\n<p>Meical Pysgodyn from the Met Office said, \u201cChanges to the climate could have severe<br \/>\nimplications for locals; there is a high percentage of gingers living in the<br \/>\ncommunity and many have been forced underground into the slate mines to stay cool; they may well struggle to adapt to the new, hotter summers, with many<br \/>\nprobably becoming nocturnal, coming out only at night\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many residents have grown up expecting rain daily; they don\u2019t know what a blue sky<br \/>\nand the sun are. The Welsh Government are setting up sprinklers on the streets to<br \/>\nkeep locals damp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Blaenau and Llan Ffestiniog are seeking therapy after the recent dry summer, which left residents going weeks without rain. Local Councillor Gwyneth Glawio said, \u201cIt\u2019s just not normal; it\u2019s always raining in Blaenau, yes we get the odd day without rain, but the last few months have been &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}