March 2021 - How did it turn out?

I’ve now sorted out the temperature and rainfall records for March 2010 to 2021. Despite having a very warm end to the month with some record breaking temperatures this March didn’t finish as the warmest I’ve recorded.

 

Warm days, above 20°C (68.0°F), are a rare occurrence in March. In the 12 years I’ve been keeping records the temperature has only reached 20°C (68.0°F) on six occasions. We managed three days in a row in late March 2012, one day in 2019 and completing the six days are the two days at the end of March this year. That’s just 6 days in 372 days of March records.

 

March this year finished fourth in the temperature table, a degree or so above average. We needed a dry month to help the garden and allotment recover from the winter rain and fortunately the weather obliged and March finished up drier than average and down in ninth place in the rainfall table for March.

We made a video of a walk around our plot on one of the lovely warm days at the end of the month.

Copyright: Original post from A Gardener's Weather Diary http://ossettweather.blogspot.co.uk/ author M Garrett