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The weather has certainly gone downhill from those hot sunny days of the middle of the month. The last week has been much cooler with some rain on most days although it hasn’t amounted to anything significant. The month’s rainfall …

Social media posts and the news have been full of details of the hot weather, storms, and torrential rain that have been around over the last week. I’ve got the impression that the whole country was affected by the storms …

We went to the allotment this afternoon (Monday) with the intention of digging up the rest of our trial potatoes. At home it didn’t seem all that hot but once at the allotment it soon became clear it was a …

Friday’s afternoon temperature reached 31.2°C equalling our record high temperature for August. It equaled our highest August temperature set last year on 26 August 2019. This week we dug up our early potatoes, Casablanca and International Kidney. As these potatoes …

I’m not sure that you can have a one day heatwave but that’s what we had to end July with an afternoon temperature of 34.2°C or 93.6°F. A scorcher of a day to end the month prevented this July from …

Our poor July weather is continuing with more windy and showery weather. It would be more accurate to label today’s strong winds as gale force. The peak gust speeds today reached 24mph which would have been the highest I’ve recorded …