Tuesday 3 November 2020

A Wet, Windy But Mild Start to November

It’s been a rather strange start to November. The first day of the month was wet and windy but very mild. 

Temperature and Rainfall Records 27 October – 02 November 2020

As you can see from the temperature trace above the mildest part of the day was around midnight on Sunday, not really the sort of time when I expect the highest temperature. However, as there was a gale force wind blowing at the same time as well as intermittent showers the temperature was a little bit irrelevant. For the records, the temperature reached 17.4°C (63.3°F) just short of the highest November temperature I’ve recorded which was 17.9°C (64.2°F) on the 10 November 2015 at 13:55.

We did manage to visit the allotment on Sunday afternoon between the showers. It was a case of harvesting a few fresh vegetables as quickly as possible before any more rain arrived.

Looking in one direction the weather looked fine but unfortunately, this was the weather we had just had, and looking in the opposite direction the weather approaching didn’t look all that promising.

I picked a cauliflower and a cabbage whilst Sue picked over the last of the peas and French beans. I picked the remaining tomatoes from the plot greenhouse and Sue picked a few cut flowers. By this time it was just beginning to rain again.

As darkness fell the wind picked up to gale force and we had some more rain but the temperature continued to rise.

4 comments:

  1. Gritters out tonight - in the South!

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    1. No frost here. Down to 4.6°C overnight. Our coldest night is still 2.2°C on 23 October.

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    2. Dahlias still not frosted then!

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  2. They were okay on Sunday, Sue picked a few as cut flowers. Might be cold tonight depends how quickly we get some cloud cover. Our local weather forecast has given a low temperature of 7°C tonight but it's down to 5.7°C at 20:00.

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