Well, winter has officially started and the good news is that the hours of daylight are beginning to lengthen. Unfortunately, all that means at the moment is we will be able to see it raining for longer. It seems rather hard to believe now, but when I filmed our mid September bird's eye view of the plot, we had the hosepipe out watering parts of the plot. I'd left digging over beds that had been cleared of summer crops because the ground was too dry.
The rain began on the 22nd September, and I didn't realise then that that day marked a significant change in the pattern of our weather. It marked a change from weather dominated by high pressure bringing us fine dry weather to low pressure bringing us wet weather in from the Atlantic Ocean. We've remained under the influence of low pressure systems resulting in what seems to be nothing but wet weather ever since.
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| Temperature & Rainfall Records 2019 |
The first three weeks of September were dry but we had enough rainfall in the later stages of the month for it to become the wettest month of the year. It didn't hold on to that tag for long as October took over the record. November turned out to be another wet month but it didn't quite manage to overtake October's rainfall total. December hasn't turned out to be as wet as the previous months, so far, but it's managed to rain most days preventing any drying out of the ground.
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| Harvesting Parsnips |
Apart from harvesting fresh vegetables as required we've done no tidying up work on the plot since the rain started back in September. A little bit of pruning has been done but all the beds have been left to dry out before any winter digging is done. I think it might be a case of waiting until spring arrives before any drying out takes place. Until we get a change in the weather pattern to more settled weather nothing very much is going to get done on the allotment.
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We got 1.2 inches in the past 12 hours. Streets flooded. More to come. Hopefully your weather will change, too. But not too much.
ReplyDeleteThat’s an impressive amount of rain in 12 hours I think we’d have some flooding too. I’m guessing that for us to get some more settled weather it’s going to have to get colder but at the moment there’s no sign of that happening.
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