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 1.2°C or 34.2°F.
Looking back on November shows that it was a pretty average November without any major weather events for us.
The temperature finished up a little bit above average and rather surprisingly it turned out to be slightly drier than normal. If anything it seemed like a wetter November than it actually was which was probably down to it raining on 22 days of the month. We didn’t have any great amount of rain but enough to make it damp and miserable for many days in the month.
Autumn 2020 finished up fairly average too with the temperature very slightly below expected and rainfall below average as well.
This autumn we have made much more progress at the allotment getting beds cleared and tidied up for winter. Last autumn produced more than double this autumn’s rainfall and it brought allotment activities to an abrupt end.
This year we’ve much more progress although I think most of the plot is now too wet to do much more work on.
We still have to lift our dahlias which hung on producing a few flowers well into November. We’ll have to make an effort to lift them the next time we visit the plot for some vegetables as leaving them in the cold wet soggy ground will probably result in us losing the tubers over winter.
