May 21, 2020 – Ossett Weather and Gardening Site

Lockdown Day 59 – Crazy Days for Plants

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:May 21, 2020
Post category:Weather

It was only six days ago that the weather forecasts were correct and we had a frost with the early morning temperature falling to -0.4°C or 31.3°F. Now, only six…

Martyn & Susan Garrett

Sometime in the 1980’s we looked into taking on an allotment. We already had a vegetable patch in our garden but we wanted to grow more of everything - vegetables and flowers - and just didn’t have the space. At that time it was fairly easy to obtain an allotment quickly and we took on a plot on Green Lane as this was the nearest site to us with vacant plots. We set to work on the plot under the watchful eye of existing allotmenteers who were no doubt taking bets on how long we would last. The plot had been ploughed by the council which was a mixed blessing.


	Temperature °C			Temperature °F
	High	Low	High	Low
Jan	13.8	-0.6	56.8	30.9
Feb	12.9	-1.8	55.2	28.8
Mar	19.5	-2.6	67.1	27.3
Apr	22.7	-1.3	72.9	29.7
May	29.3	-0.4	84.7	31.3	84.74	31.28
Jun	29.9	4.6	85.8	40.3	85.82	40.28
Jul	34.2	8.7	93.6	47.7	93.56	47.66
Aug	31.2	3.9	88.2	39.0	88.16	39.02
Sep	27.7	2.5	81.9	36.5	81.86	36.5
Oct	17.9	2.2	64.2	36.0	64.22	35.96
Nov	17.4	-2.1	63.3	28.2	63.32	28.22
Dec	13.3	-1.9	55.9	28.6	55.94	28.5800


	Rainfall
	mm	inches
Jan	33.6	1.3
Feb	168.2	6.7
Mar	30.0	1.2
Apr	8.0	0.3
May	5.8	0.2	0.2
Jun	68.2	2.7	2.7
Jul	61.6	2.4	2.4
Aug	65.8	2.4	2.6
Sep	26.4	1.0	1.0
Oct	76.2	3.0	3.0
Nov	29.4	1.2	1.2
Dec	82.4	3.3	3.3