article_snippet.sent: Parts of Britain could face a drought as the Met Office cut the Met Office rain forecast following last week's heatwave.
article_snippet.sent: And forecasters warned that initial figures suggest that so far this month Britain has only seen 35 per cent of the average rainfall for April.
article_snippet.sent: The dry spell follows months of below-average rainfall and conditions are not expected to bring significant showers before May's arrival.
article_snippet.sent: Met Office meteorologist Emma Sillitoe said: ‘We are over halfway through the month
article_snippet.sent: but We've had around a third of the rainfall We get on average.
article_snippet.sent: Weather data for the year so far shows national rain fall has been significantly lower than average nearly every month.
article_snippet.sent: the year got off to a soggy start, with January seeing 20 per cent more rain than average but then 13 per cent less than usual fell in February.
article_snippet.sent: Last month the figure was 5 per cent below average.