Tuesday, 26 November 2019
The Gloom Has Descended!
November has been a miserable month even by November standards. It began very wet, giving us our wettest November day of the last 10 years. Throughout the month it was on the cold side until a milder spell arrived over the last couple of days.
November 2019 Temperature & Rainfall Details
For the last few days daytime and night time temperatures have varied very little and the milder few days will probably be enough to stop this from turning out to be the coldest November I've recorded.
However, the milder conditions of the last few days have been accompanied by very cloudy weather without any hint of sunshine. Although it hasn't rained very much the ground has never dried up.
We haven't even visited the allotment to harvest any vegetables but as we've almost run out of fresh vegetables we'll have to make a visit soon. It's certainly too wet to do any other jobs on the plot other than cutting some cabbages and digging up some carrots, parsnips and leeks. The forecast is for the gloom to continue until the weekend when the weather will turn colder again as we head towards December.
Saturday, 30 November 2019
Who Flipped the Switch?
After a week or so of gloomy days with just about average November temperatures the weather changed through the course of Friday to much colder conditions.
Temperature & Rainfall Records 28-30 November 2019
Saturday morning saw the temperature drop to -3.8°C (25.2°F) the coldest so far this autumn.
The good side of the colder weather is that it's got rid of the gloom and brought us some brighter weather and we made the most of Friday afternoon and had a trip to the plot to harvest some fresh vegetables. It was our usual winter harvest of carrots, parsnips, leeks and cabbage. The swede is a one off as it's a vegetable we have lots of difficulties growing so we consider this one a bit of a success even if we had shared some of it with our allotments pests. The carrots, on the other hand, were the best we've dug this autumn as they were almost free of slug damage.
Although we'd had sunshine for most of the days there was still frost on the ground in the late afternoon.
The forecast is for the cooler weather to be replaced by milder, wet conditions by the middle of next week.