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Storm Bella arrived as forecast in the early hours of Saturday night and had passed through by dawn on Sunday morning. She came with some strong gusty winds and a decent amount of rain but nothing that we shouldn’t expect …

Over the last week the weather has turned milder but it hasn’t resulted in any drier days. At the moment it looks like this December will follow a similar pattern to the last few Decembers and finish up with the …

At last, we had a decent day on Monday. Most of the week had followed a similar pattern either dull or wet and dull. It felt good to see a little bit of sunshine. It was the mildest day of …

It seemed to me that November was a wet month although the rainfall figures for the month didn’t back that up. However, December has started off cold and wet. We’ve already had 21.8mm (0.86in) of rainfall in the first week …

Meteorological winter has begun and it’s started on a rather chilly note. I’m writing this post as we get the first few snowflakes of winter. They’re not settling even though the outside temperature at 10:00 on Friday morning is only …

The very early hours of Saturday morning produced our coldest autumn temperature of the year as the thermometer fell to -2.1°C or 28.2°F. Late on Friday night, the temperature had fallen to below zero as the reading on my weather …