The bright sunny weather didn't last and as forecast the last three days have been dull, cold and miserable. The temperature has just about managed to scrape above 0°C during the day but it’s felt extra cold in a bitingly cold east wind.
It means that all gardening tasks have gone on hold until some better days arrive. Fortunately the weather has been dry even though it’s been dull and cloudy. So far we haven’t had a great deal of rain in February so hopefully the soil down on the plot will be drying out a little.
This chart from my weather station gives an approximation of how much drying out might be going on. ET (mm) isn't my own extra terrestrial but a measure of how much evaporation has taken place from the ground in general. As you can see so far this month we've had 34.2mm of rain and 11.7mm of that is estimated to have evaporated. I’m presuming that as we've had more rainfall than evaporation it’s why the soil on our plot is still wet and tacky. It’s the same story for the year with 83mm of rainfall and only 21.6mm lost to evaporation.
I’m sure some of our early spring bulbs have decided to wait for better weather. A couple of weeks ago I thought our snowdrops would be in flower but they seemed have been in a state of bud ever since then.
I’m sure that once they get a little bit of sunshine and some warmer days they’ll be bursting into bloom.
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I haven't got a single bulb in bloom yet. It's probably just as well though as it's snowing here.
ReplyDeleteJust a few little bits of snow here if you look carefully enough out of the window. The temperatures raced up to 2°C though. Think we might give the plot a miss today!!
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