Britain has just weathered floods and storms in a wetter than average winter, but experts are already warning that it could be a very dry summer.

BBC: Special Report

It didn't feel much like it yesterday, driving back from mid Wales, wipers going all the way but by the looks of things, it's going to be a long, dry summer.

BBC: Highly politicised liquid assets

As I wrote several months ago, the media did the same thing with the hot summer, arguing frequently that this recent hot dry summer proved a trend for extreme temperatures, drought, and forest fires.

FORBES: Connect

If today's headlines suggesting Wales should sell its water resources to England at a market rate are anything to go by then it's going to be a long, dry and politically torrid summer too.

BBC: Highly politicised liquid assets

Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Wednesday in their first 2013 summer outlook that a dry winter and expected warming trend mean the potential for significant fire activity will be above normal on the West Coast, in the Southwest and portions of Idaho and Montana.

NPR: Fire Forces Evacuation Of Campus, Homes In Calif.

The untended fields and the warm and dry summer have combined to provide a splendid breeding-ground for the swarms of locusts.

ECONOMIST: Invasion of the locusts

The summer months tend to be a dry period for the central U.S., limiting the chances for rain to replenish parched soil.

WSJ: Midwest's Dry Spell Threatens to Intensify

Our tester had winter snow tires, thankfully, given that there was plenty of snow to drive in, and that meant that when we were on dry pavement there was less traction than you'd get from a grippier summer tire.

FORBES: Test Drives

This style, found almost nowhere else in Germany, uses dry straw and water reed to build the roofs, resulting in a home that is cool in the summer and warm in winter.

BBC: Exploring Germany��s northernmost island