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| Temperature Records 25-27 June 2018 |
On both Monday and Tuesday the temperature managed to exceed 30°C (86°F) but on Wednesday it only managed 27.4°C which maintains a record for my weather station in that I've never recorded three consecutive days above 30°C. It means I've had to amend my top twenty hottest days table to take Tuesday into account.
As we approach the end of the month it is obvious that we've had a very warm June and I'm sure we'll soon be told that it's the "hottest ever June" or the "hottest June since records began". So in anticipation I've looked up what I think are the hottest Junes using the Central England Temperature Record.
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| Data from Hadley Centre Central England Temperature Record |
The current value of this year's June average is 16.0°C provisional to the 26th of the month. That puts it into 7th place tying with 1775. With hot weather forecast to the end of the month it is probably going to head up this table but will it finish up hotter than 1846. For comparison my weather stations average for this June is 16.3°C up to the 26th of June.
The hot and sunny weather means there's lots of watering to do at home and at the allotment. It's important to make sure all the plants in the greenhouse and summerhouse get watered or this happens.
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| Begonia Sutherlandii |
This poor plant growing, or was growing, in the summerhouse until my watering regime missed it out. I'm not sure that it will recover but I'll move it to a shaded spot in the greenhouse and see if it sends up some new shoots. Fortunately it's not the only pot of begonia sutherlandii we have. It should look like this-
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| Begonia Sutherlandii |
I'm now being much more careful to make sure all our plants get watered especially our other begonias.
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I've never seen a begonia wilt before! It is one of the more reliable non-wilters even in our hot and dry climate.
ReplyDeleteWe are headed toward one of the cooler Junes, not that it got too cold, it just didn't get too hot.
You have all my sympathies in your predicament. What is going to happen to your harvest?
I think our harvest will be much reduced. Most vegetables and flowers are producing a mini version compared to normal. I'm not expecting much in the way of a potato crop unless dwarf plants produce good crops.
DeleteThe weather models seem reluctant to break down the high pressure systems giving us our hot dry weather. The 10 day GFS forecast to 8th July doesn't suggest any rainfall.
I'm betting your cold June is much hotter than our hot June if you know what I mean.
(Laughing.) Daily mean temperature for Los Angeles in June is 69.2 (20.7)
DeleteHopefully it will recover Martyn some of my plants in pots have died but plan to put some new seeds in or plants and blessing to you both
ReplyDeleteAt least we have a few other pots of begonias that are okay. I'm hoping it will recover too.
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