Thursday turned out to be our mildest December day since I started keeping records in 2010. The afternoon temperature reached 16.6°C (61.9°F) breaking the record of 15.8°C (60.4°F) set back…
I’ve seen reports that the higher parts of Yorkshire had snow on Christmas Day. It wasn’t the case for us. We had a dull wet day continuing the trend of…
Tuesday was our shortest day of the year. To me it’s the first milestone of winter as from now on each day will be getting a little bit more daylight.…
After a mildish spell of weather for the middle of December, it turned much colder as the weekend arrived. Despite the weather we’ve managed to take Ruby out for a…
We made the most of a pleasant Sunday afternoon to coppice one of our hazel bushes at the allotment. The morning had been cloudy and drizzly but the clouds cleared…
The beginning of December has brought us two named storms. The first was Arwen which was worthy of note as it brought us some snow in November.; something unusual for…
The end of November brought meteorological autumn to an end. After some lovely mild weather for November, the last week brought some colder temperatures, plenty of rain and very unusually…
It’s been a freezing cold end to November. Sunday was the coldest day in the spell with the average temperature for the day coming in at -0.2°C or 31.6°F. However,…
It’s turned out that the weather models were correct when they forecast around a week ago we might get some snow. We woke up on Saturday morning to a light…
At dawn on Monday we had our coldest temperature of autumn. It was the first time the temperature had fallen below 0°C or 32°F since the beginning of May this…