Saturday took over as the warmest day of the year as the afternoon temperature reached 23.9°C or 75.0°F. The warm days have been very welcome but with lots of media hype around the spell of warm weather it's not been such a brilliant month for gardeners. The average temperature for April up until Saturday is 7.7°C (45.9°F) making it the third coldest April since 2010 with only 2012 and 2013 colder at this late stage in the month.
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| Temperature & Rainfall Records 22-March - 21 April 2019 |
Worryingly we've had to start watering on the allotment. As you can see from the chart above we've had virtually no rainfall in the last 4 weeks. Normally we'd expect around 50 mm of rainfall over a four week period rather than the 3mm we have actually recorded.
Rainfall in 2019 has been on the low side in any case with January and February having below average rainfall. March began with two wet weeks but since then nothing of any use for the allotment.
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| Rainfall Records for 2019 |
The current spell of warm weather is forecast to break down following Easter Monday with a more changeably outlook to follow. A decent rainy day would be most welcome at the allotment.
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