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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…

Coldest Start to July

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:July 9, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Brassicas / Cold weather / Weather

Summer has all but disappeared as we've entered July. This year the first week of July is the coldest start to the month I've recorded in 10 years. As you…

At Last Some Rain – Now To Start Clearing the Backlog

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:June 7, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Brassicas / Weather

I haven't added a lockdown day as it seems it's ended judging from the thousands of people joining protest marches around the country! After going something like two and a half…

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