Tuesday 2 June 2015

Meteorological Summer Begins -Really!

The start of June hasn’t changed the weather and the first day of the month was cool and windy with a few showers throughout the day.

Our rose White Cloud has produced its first flower of the season tucked away in a sheltered spot in the back border.
I’m glad to see the back of May weatherwise as it’s been a very disappointing month. Based on my records over the last five years it’s turned out to be the windiest and by a few hours the dullest. It’s avoided the reputation as the coldest May by the enormous margin of 0.1°C with the average temperature coming in at 11.3°C (52.3°F), the coldest May that I have recorded being 2013 at 11.2°C (52.2°F). For good measure it’s turned out to be the second wettest too so you can see it hadn’t too much going for it. The appropriate tables are shown below.


4 comments:

  1. Such a pretty rose! The weather nowadays is very unpredictable!

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    1. Our weather is rather predictable at the moment Malar. It's cool and windy most of the time. It's supposed to be improving by the end of the week!

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  2. I hope your lovely rose still has some petals left - it's been a wet and wild 24 hours here, probably brought on by us putting up a netting brassica cage yesterday (hope it's still on the plot) ! Interesting that on your charts the wind speed really stands out for May this year.

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    1. Wet and windy here too. Our rose is in a very sheltered spot and has survived the gales. June might stand out too if it continues like this!

      Hope your brassica cage survives.

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