Sunday produced a taste of summer but unfortunately, it was for one day only. Monday morning was cooler and cloudy enough to produce some light drizzle. Tuesday and Wednesday haven’t been an awful lot better.
After some cool days, Sunday did feel like summer had arrived in the mid afternoon sunshine at the allotment. The temperature made it to 22.9°C (73.2°F) which isn’t anything at all special for the middle of July. There is a “but” to the story as Sunday was not just the hottest day of this July it was also the coldest with an early morning temperature of 8.7°C (47.7°F) unusually cold for the middle of summer.
As you can see from the chart above Sunday was the first day of the month to reach the average daytime temperature for July and apart from a couple of nights all the night time temperatures have been below average too.
We’ve already had a decent amount of rainfall this month adding up to 51.6mm which isn’t far from July’s average rainfall.
The rainfall has kept the ground at the allotment workable and our Kalibro cabbages could be planted out without any advanced watering. All our brassicas appear to be enjoying the cool and wetter conditions so we’re looking forward to some excellent crops as we move a bit further into summer.
