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Tuesday, 02 January 2018 New Year's Day Harvesting The weather for the first day of the new year wasn't too bad. We needed some fresh vegetables and a little bit of fresh air so we decided on a trip to the allotment. ﷯ We decided to harvest some vegetables before starting to do any tidying up jobs. It was just as well we did as it started to drizzle heavily by mid afternoon. By this time we'd managed to harvest some decent fresh vegetables. ﷯ Parsnips - Gladiator ﷯ Brussels Sprouts - Crispus Before the rain came Sue started digging out one of our clumps of rhubarb which has become over run with wick grass and I did a little more clearing work on a bed on plot 30 which had been neglected for a couple of years. There's a video below showing the crops we have to harvest on the plot as the new year begins.
Wednesday, 03 January 2018 Didn't Miss Storm Eleanor We might have missed most of the snow that arrived over the last few weeks but we didn't miss storm Eleanor as she blew through. ﷯ Temperature and High Wind Speed Records for 01-03 January 2018 Wind gusts peaked at 30mph overnight which isn't all that unusual for storms in January. We don't seem to have any damage in the garden. ﷯ The birds might have to make do with seed on the bird table this morning as the hanging feeders are being blown about rather dramatically in the wind. Some fancy aerobatics will be required to land on the feeders. In anticipation of this year's winter storms I took the precaution of adding some extra ballast to the base of the bird table. ﷯ It seems to have worked as normally winds of 30mph would result in the bird table falling over into the rhododendron bush. ﷯ In the past even strong winds in summer would topple it. Thursday, 04 January 2018 Mild and Windy Start to January - Will It Last? The first few days of the year have been on the mild side for January but it's also been dull and damp. ﷯ The last time I looked the computer weather models didn't seem to agree on next week's weather. They agreed it will be cooler at the weekend but then disagree on what might occur through next week. Either we'll get a milder option with weather coming in on a westerly breeze off the Atlantic or a cold easterly breeze from continental Europe. I've finished sorting out last year's weather data and included a few tables below comparing December's temperature and rainfall records for the last few year's. The temperature in December was a little below average and it was on the dry side too. I've also included some tables giving yearly comparisons of the same records. The year finished up milder and drier than average. ﷯ The table below summarises the yearly wind speeds. Although my method probably isn't scientifically correct I think it gives an idea of how windy each year has been. I'd say 2017 turned out to be about average. ﷯ Now I've got to set up the tables for 2018! Saturday, 06 January 2018 Connection Issues It's been a fairly average start to the new year with dull, wet and windy weather the order of the day. ﷯ Temperature & Rainfall Records 01-06 January 2018 On Thursday evening my computer did one of those magical Windows updates. Since then my weather station seems very reluctant to connect to the Internet. I constantly receive a message informing me of an Internet connection failure. ﷯ My weather data to Weather Underground was last uploaded on 04/01/2018 and it doesn't want to upload any more data. As you're reading this post it's obvious that my Internet connection is working okay so I'm not too sure where to look for the problem. If you're looking at some of my weather data on the Internet and it seems a bit out of date this is the reason why. ﷯

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