The weather in June was gorgeous for taking Ruby on long walks at Temple Newsam, Rothwell Park and Nostell Priory. A few days were particularly warm and we decided on evening walks for Ruby once the heat of the day had died down. Indeed this June turned out to be the warmest since I started keeping records in 2010.
April’s weather hasn’t been all that good for gardening. Last week was on the wet side and the result is that the allotment needs a few days of dry weather before any more beds can be dug over.
So far March has been a disappointing month weather wise. It started off cold before turning cold and snowy. The last week has been on the wet side.
Temperatures for the last week have been all over the place.
February brought an end to meteorological winter but March has started on a cold note.
It certainly has been a very cold start to March. Most news bulletins about the weather have started off stating that Wednesday was the coldest day of the year. However, in our case that isn’t true as that particular record is still held by 22 January 2023 when the temperature fell to -5.9°C or 21.4°F. The temperature on Wednesday fell to -3.4°C or 25.9°F. Since then in the early hours of Saturday morning, the temperature fell to -3.6°C or 25.5°F.
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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