We've had plenty of rain so far in March, enough to put most allotment jobs on hold. Monday has already become the wettest day not only of March but the year so far. The rain gauge has just ticked over to 12.4mm (0.5in) at 10:30 and if the forecast turns out to be correct we've got more wet weather to come today.
We had a trip into the North Yorkshire Moors National Park yesterday (Sunday) to see Tornado. This wasn't one of the weather variety but a steam locomotive named Tornado.
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| 60163 Tornado at Goathland Station |
There was still some snow about on the highest points of the moors, especially near Levisham Station, but it was now coated black and not looking its best.
We really should be getting on with some jobs at the allotment but it's far too wet at the moment to even consider digging over any ground let alone planting any crops. If I can this week I'd like to sow some leeks, in modules in the greenhouse, just to feel a little bit of progress is being made.
I've noticed that the computer weather models are suggesting some colder weather following on from next weekend. I'm not sure at the moment that it won't be any worse than overnight frosts and fairly cold by day but there's always a chance that we could get a return of some snow as well. With a week to go there's plenty of opportunity for the weather models to come up with something very different. I'm hoping they will as I'm fed up with cold, snowy and wet weather and would very much appreciate it if spring would hurry up and arrive.
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Well the top picture looks like our lawn squelch squelch the bottom picture of the loco is much more to my liking
ReplyDeleteRained all day here David. Had 19.0mm or the best part of 1 inch. Not what we needed on already saturated soil. Might get round to some gardening eventually.
DeleteLovely update Martyn thank you for sharing have a blessed day both ofyou
ReplyDeletePS the new blog header text and font is lovely the text looks as if it is standing away from the daffodils
ReplyDeleteI have to admit that Sue did the text and I only added the photo. It's set up in Photoshop so the background picture can be changed easily.
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