It's been a mild first week and a half of January with temperatures above average both through the day and over night. We haven't, however managed to exceed that high January temperature of 14.7°C (58.5°F) recorded in 2016.
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| Temperature Records January 2020 |
Even though it's been on the mild side it hasn't been particularly pleasant with strong to gale force winds taking the edge off the temperature and making it feel distinctly chilly outside. It has been a reasonable dry start to the month with only a few showers until we had some more general rain Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
The break in the wet weather of the last few months allowed us to make a start on a few allotment jobs we had planned for autumn and winter. We at last made a start on burning prunings from our fruit trees and our cut back buddleia bushes. Most of the material had been waiting for a break in the wet weather since before bonfire night in November.
Much of the material was still on the damp side but after a couple of failed attempts I managed to get a decent bonfire going and all the material burnt away.
It felt like we were actually starting to make some progress at tidying up the plot from last year and beginning to get it prepared for the new growing season.
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Belated Birthday greetings. Nice pyrotechnics!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mal. That fire took some getting started!
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