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Tuesday, 16 January 2018 First Flower of the Year! As forecast there has been a change in the weather and last week's calm, dreary and dull conditions have been replaced by wet and windy ones. One things remained the same though and that's a lack of any sunshine. So far we have escaped any snow showers. I noticed this morning that one of our hellebores has come into flower making it the first flower of the year in our garden. ﷯ Yesterday we had a flying visit to RHS Harlow Carr on a wet Monday morning. After a coffee waiting for the rain to ease we managed a quick walk around the rain soddened gardens. ﷯ ﷯ At least there are a few signs that Spring is on its way as we pass into the second half of winter. Wednesday, 17 January 2018 Good Job It's Fallen as Rain! The forecast for the last few days has suggested we'd get lots of snow showers. At times that has been true but most of the time the showers have fallen as rain, with some hail and snow mixed in for good measure. ﷯ Temperature & Rainfall Records 15-17 January 2018 We've had 17.2mm (0.68in) of rainfall, all falling as showers, over the last 3 days up to 10:00am on Wednesday 17, January which I would have thought added up to a decent snowfall had it indeed fallen as snow as was forecast. Wednesday morning has started with more showers and windy. I've just filled up the bird feeders in the garden and it feels bitterly cold outside in the strong wind and rain. ﷯ Temperature & Wind Chill Records 15-17 January 2018 As you can observe from my weather station data, taking in the wind chill factor makes it feel more like 0°C (32°F) rather than the actual recorded temperature of 3.5°C or 38.3°F. I'm struggling for outdoor photos today but inside our hibiscus, which spent summer in the summerhouse, continues to flower on an indoor window ledge. It's just a pity that the flowers only last for a day. ﷯ Friday, 17 January 2018 Lucky Again With The Weather We’ve had a real mixed bag of weather over the last few days. The storm forecast for Wednesday night into Thursday morning never really happened or more to the point the weather never changed that much as the storm passed through. ﷯ Temperature, Pressure and Hi Wind Speed Records 16-18 January 2018 ﷯ Temperature, Wind Chill and Rainfall Records 16-18 January 2018 As you can see from my weather station readings it’s been a wet and windy few days in any case and the arrival of the storm made very little difference except for a rather sudden rise and fall in the temperature. It's interesting to see how that sudden temperature change and associated strong winds coincided with a fall in barometric pressure as the storm centre passed through. Rainfall since Monday this week has so far amounted to 27.2mm (1.07in) giving us one of the wettest spells for quite some time. It might be a bit too wet to get any more winter digging done at the allotment. Whilst some places have had moderately heavy snowfalls we’ve had almost none. We had a couple of millimetres on Tuesday evening which was enough to bring the motorway to a standstill near us. Our journey from Rothwell to Ossett was a bit of a record breaker with an average speed of 13mph even though nearly all the journey is on the motorway. ﷯ ﷯ M1 Motorway Southbound Near Leeds 16 January 2018 Not much snow I'm sure you'll agree but it seemed to bring the motorway to all but a standstill. The forecast is for the weather to stay cold through the weekend with the possibility of more snow showers on Sunday. After that it's forecast to get a little bit milder. Saturday, 20 January 2018 Our Greenhouse Needs A Tidy Up Our extremely mixed up and changeable weather continued through Friday. The morning started off cold with a covering of black ice making roads and pavements very slippery. The sun even made an appearance in the morning before the clouds returned with more heavy showers which were a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. ﷯ Temperature, Wind Chill and Rainfall Records for 19 January 2018 I did have a little trip up to our greenhouse this week. It's not had much attention since autumn time when the tomatoes finished fruiting. I've put together a little video showing how little we have growing in there in the middle of winter.

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