The early hours of Wednesday morning produced the coldest late May temperature I've recorded in the last 10 years.
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| Temperature Records 27-29 May 2019 |
It's soon warmed up and you'd never known that we'd had such a cold early morning with the temperature falling to 3.9°C or 39.0°F. It's easily the coldest night this late into spring I've recorded as you can see from the table below. The temperatures are colour coordinated from red to blue with dark red indicating warmest through to dark blue representing the coldest nights. (Click over the chart to see a larger version)
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| May Low Temperature 2010-2019 |
At home at least the cold night doesn't appear to have done any damage. Our climbing French beans Cobra were left outside to germinate and the newly emerging leaves look unscathed this morning.
I'm hoping there are no colder nights to come. I don't expect to be providing frost protection as we move into June.
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After seeing the forecast I filled the greenhouse with cucurbits but there was limited space so the hardened off brassicas and flowers just had to take their chances. I can't detect any problems today. In fact I have planted a number of them out at the plot - after consulting the long range forecast.
ReplyDeleteOur squashes and courgettes were outside and survived okay. Long range forecast looks changeable for the first two weeks of June as far as I can make out. Chances of some "proper" rain for us too which would be really useful.
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