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We Missed The Showers

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:October 26, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Visits

Last week was a showery one with a couple of cold nights thrown in.We didn’t have any great amount of rain on any particular day but the showers tended to…

Cool October Weather

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:October 18, 2020
Post category:Cold weather / Weather

The weathermen like to call the conditions over the last week "settled weather". They use this term when our weather is controlled by high pressure. However, the weather so far…

Nostell Priory - National Trust

Lazy Photography?

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:October 11, 2020
Post category:Video / Weather

The weather forecast for Monday was a little bit out. Instead of a cloudy and cool day as forecast, it turned out sunny and mild in the afternoon. We decided…

September Finishes On The Dry Side

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:October 4, 2020
Post category:Weather

September in many ways was similar to the summer months in that we had a few hot days for the time of year but the remaining days were pretty disappointing.…

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	1.3339
Feb	168.2	6.6775
Mar	30.0	1.191
Apr	8.0	0.3176
May	5.8	0.2303	0.2303
Jun	68.2	2.7075	2.7075
Jul	61.6	2.4	2.4455
Aug	65.8	2.4	2.6123
Sep	26.4	1.0	1.0481
Oct	76.2	3.0	3.0251
Nov	29.4	1.2	1.1672
Dec	82.4	3.3	3.2713