The thaw set in properly on Saturday as the temperature rose to 6.2°C. All the snow and ice stored up in the rain gauge funnel melted and by early evening it amounted to 16.6mm of rainfall. Then mid evening it started to rain even though the snow hadn't completely thawed. In the end we’d had 19.8mm of precipitation making it a wet day although it had only rained for a couple of hours.
Now the snow has gone our hellebores are continuing to put on a display as though the snow and frost had never occurred.
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We're not that far away, so it's amazing how different our weather can be. All the neighbours were out on Saturday morning digging all the cars out and shovelling snow from the road as we'd had such a heavy snow fall overnight. The rain came during the night and washed it all away, and we had driving rain right through until midday yesterday. I'm so pleased the snow's gone now, there's still bits of it stacked where people have cleared their drives, but I'm hoping we've seen the last of it now.
ReplyDeleteI hope we've seen the last of it too. We received an extremely large box this morning from Kings Seeds. So spring must definitely be on the way - if it ever dries out!
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