Plenty of showers on Sunday after a couple of drier days. The temperature remained stubbornly cool for late April.
April so far has been a very disappointing month weather-wise. To date this year every day has been colder than the corresponding day last April. Last year by the 22nd of the month 18 days had exceeded 14°C (57°F) with a high of 22.8°C (73°F). This year we've still not managed to reach 14°C and our highest temperature has been 13.9°C on the first day of the month.
The average temperature for the month stands at 6.9°C (44°F) which will make it the coldest April since 1989 unless we have a heat wave over the next few days.
We've had plenty of showers throughout April but surprisingly only just reached the average rainfall for the month which is 57.9mm (2.4”). Maybe it seems wetter as we've had 18 days with recorded rainfall rather than a few very wet days. Our total now stands at 60.6mm. In contrast we had just 2.4mm last year as April 2011 was one of the driest on record.
Little wonder then that allotmenting has been a tricky business this April with its wet and cool weather.
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Hmmm, I don't think we're in for a heatwave any time soon. The long range forecast is for the coldest May for a hundred years. Have we had our summer already then?
ReplyDeleteI saw that long range forecast too and thought it was probably a load of rubbish. Then I saw it was forecast by Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction who has an uncanny knack of correct forecasting. Lets hope he's wrong on this occasion!
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