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All through the gardening year, it’s been difficult to know if we’d be able to find some compost, plants or seeds for the allotment. This was true when I was looking out for winter onion sets. I saw that winter …

All through this year, we’ve had the occasional day or couple of days of very warm weather. The last couple of days have been very warm and it’s probably the last time this year we will get some hot weather. …

How time flies. I hadn’t realised how long it had been since my last post. That’s partly because there’s been nothing particularly unusual with the weather during the first part of September and because we’ve been busy harvesting and planting …

Firstly let’s consider the temperatures and rainfall for August.As you can see from the table above it turned out to be a fairly average August, although it managed this with extremes of high and low temperatures. August 2020 recorded both …

Last night the temperature dropped to 3.9°C (39.0°F), almost cold enough for a frost. It’s the coldest August night I’ve recorded in 10 years taking over from 31 August 2010, when the temperature fell to 4.6°C or 40.3°F. August 2020 …

The last week has been cold, windy and wet. It seems like autumn has arrived rather early this year.The week’s rainfall amounted to 29.0mm or 1.14in with most of it falling on Tuesday from storm Francis. It’s brought this month’s …