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 us. The second named storm was Barra which luckily for us didn’t bring anything out of the ordinary for December. For us, December is normally a very windy month anyway.

I’ve added the high wind speed records to the above chart which makes it a bit cluttered. Oddly our windiest day was in between the two named storms. 

However, the last week or so has seen us get plenty of rain. The total adds up to 58.4mm (2.3in) or a good month’s rainfall in just over a week.

We did manage a walk around Nostell Priory with Ruby on Thursday. The result of all the rain is that the additional winter lakes have begun to form there. Even parts of the  bluebell woods were beginning to show the signs of too much rain. 

The end of the week has been better and we managed a very short visit to the allotment to do some harvesting.

The weekend has brought some milder temperatures but some dull and drizzly conditions as well.