We’re almost to the end of January and, unless something unusual occurs during the last few days of the month weatherwise, it will be a fairly average January both in terms of temperature and rainfall.
A couple of years ago now we changed our method of storing carrots over winter. Our usual procedure for storing root crops in general over winter was to cover them with straw.
This is how far I’d got at writing Sunday’s blog post on Saturday afternoon.
I’m hoping that Saturday, 21 January will turn out to be the coldest day of the year. At 08:40 on Saturday morning, the temperature had fallen to -4.8°C (23.4°F), the lowest temperature this year and slightly lower than anything we had last year.
It doesn’t quite make it into the list of top twenty coldest days as -4.9°C is required to get into equal twentieth position. The morning began as though it was going to be a cold crisp winter’s day but by mid-morning, some thick mist or fog had descended and it didn’t lift all day. The day’s high temperature was 0.0°C or 32.0°F in the middle of the afternoon.
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