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Battered By Gales Again This Month

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:July 29, 2020
Post category:Allotment Cold weather Weather Windy Weather

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…

Average July Temperatures 2010 - 2020

Still Waiting for Summer to Start!

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:July 23, 2020
Post category:Allotment Cold weather Weather

I haven't posted for a while as I was hoping for some sort of change in our weather. I last posted regarding our cold start to July and how after…

A Taste of Summer But……

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:July 15, 2020
Post category:Brassicas Cold weather Weather

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…

Weather’s Grim – Very Grim

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:July 10, 2020
Post category:Brassicas Cold weather Weather Wet weather

This July keeps on setting 10 year records but they're not the good ones. Last Sunday was our windiest July day in ten years. You'd think that one bad 10…

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