Thursday, 07 February 2019
Wettest Day of the Year!
It's only mid morning on Thursday but surprisingly it has become our wettest day of the year. I say surprisingly because we've only had 3.4mm (0.13in) of rainfall early on Thursday morning but that relatively small amount still makes it the wettest day this year.
Rainfall Records 09 January to 07 February 2019
The cold weather at the beginning of February meant I didn't get round to posting the facts and figures for January. The low rainfall in January was more worthy of note than the temperature. As you can see from the table below January this year was easily the driest over the last few years.
Rainfall January 2010 - 2019
Temperature wise this January turned out to be more or less average with some rather mild days cancelled out by some colder days.
Average January Temperatures 2010 - 2019
We're now starting to get a bit of colour into the garden. The hellebores have been in flower for a few weeks and our snowdrops are in bud and will be in flower any day now.
Sunday, 10 February 2019
Storm "Erik"
Storm Erik has blown through leaving Sunday morning much calmer. Saturday became our wettest day of the year with 6.2mm (0.24in) of rainfall which is nothing out of the ordinary. Storm Erik did manage to make it into my list of top twenty windiest days of the last ten years.
It's probably fair to say that 13 January this year was windier as it had an higher average wind speed measured over the whole day.
Temperature & Wind Speed Records 08-10 February 2019
The highest wind speeds were in the early hours of Saturday morning with storm Erik finally easing through Saturday afternoon.
At home the garden has survived without any damage and hopefully there will be nothing damaged at the allotment either.
