Sunday 28 July 2019

Gardening on Hold - Summer Changes to Autumn

The exceptional heat of Thursday disappeared through Friday to be replaced by something resembling autumn on Saturday and it is continuing into Sunday morning.

Temperature & Rainfall Records 25-27 July 2019
The temperature for most of Saturday hovered around the 16°C (61°F) mark about 20°C (35°F) lower than Thursday. We had showers or more prolonged periods of steady rain for most of the day on Saturday which produced a total of 17.4mm (0.7in) of rainfall. It's the wettest day of the year and the wettest since the 20th September last year.
Based on the measurements of solar radiation that my weather station records Saturday was the dullest July day of the last 10 years. The rainfall is good news for the garden and allotment and it will certainly mean that we don't need to do any watering but a spell of dry weather would be good to fit in a little bit of harvesting at the plot. Come rain or shine, we will have to make a trip to the plot to water the tomatoes in the greenhouse.

The forecast is for lots more rain over the next few days but it's chopping and changing all the time so it's rather difficult to know what to expect. There's certainly no return to summer forecast over the next few days.
Copyright: Original post from A Gardener's Weather Diary http://ossettweather.blogspot.co.uk/ author M Garrett

Posted by Martyn at 10:10

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