It’s been the mildest January since I started my record keeping a little over 10 years ago. Rather amazingly we had only one night where the temperature fell below 0°C (32°F) all month and almost every day was above the average temperature for January. However, although it was a mild month it was also a windy month as one low pressure system after another tracked in off the Atlantic Ocean. One good thing was that rainfall was below average which must help in drying out the allotment after the wet months that brought 2019 to a close.