If you've followed my blog post through February you will be well aware that it's been an extremely wet and windy month. I've now finalised the rainfall figures and wind speeds records for the month. It's turned out to be both the wettest month and windiest month of the last eleven years.
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| Wettest & Windiest Months 2010-2020 |
What's more neither record has just crept over the line into top spot but is there by some considerable margin.
There seems to have been an awful lot of talk about how mild this winter has been but my weather station records didn't confirm it as the warmest of the last eleven years, with the winter of 2014/15 still holding on to that record. Rather unsurprisingly with all the rainfall of the last month, this winter's turned out to be the wettest I've recorded.
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| Winter Averages for Rainfall & Temperature 2010-2020 |
It seems rather incredible that in the middle of September last year the plot was very dry. Some parts of the plot were in need of watering and I didn't start any winter digging because the ground was too dry. I thought a little bit of rain would make digging over the ground so much easier. Little did I imagine that once the rain started it was going to continue through the rest of autumn and winter without any break.
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| Plot 18 September 2019 |
February's average temperature was a little above normal but only managed fifth place out of eleven years. However, as you can see the amount of rainfall in the month was more than double the previous wettest February I'd recorded.
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| February Averages for Rainfall & Temperature 2010-2020 |
This winter has been remarkably frost free and it's meant that our early rhubarb hasn't had its early stems knocked back by any frost. We managed to pick a few stems at the weekend which I suppose you could say was our first "fruit" harvest of the year.
I'm rather glad to see the end of February and I'm looking forward to some better weather in March. Hopefully, we'll get some dry and sunny days to help the garden and allotment dry out for the start of the main planting season at the beginning of April. At least our only concern from all the rain is how it will impact on our start to the gardening year rather than those whose homes have been flooded and will need months of drying out and repair works before their homes are fit to live in again.
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So the mantra Warmer Wetter Windier appears to hold (although the Warmer is a bit weaker). Right now Edinburgh has flip flopped to a spell of calmer and colder at night!
ReplyDeleteSame here Mal. Warmest day this year 07 January. Only 4 below zero nights in January and February. Already had 3 below zero nights in March!
Deletethe charts on the right are interesting especially for 2011/2012 both in rainfall and temp. Does make me wonder about global warming following a set pattern
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about global warming following a set pattern but the weather seems to go in patterns in general. Unfortunately the patterns are almost impossible to predict. I'm still waiting for that nice Mediterranean climate to arriving that we were told was coming years ago. Didn't get our sweet corn to ripen last summer!
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