Gardeners among the readership of this blog may already be watering their seeds in an attempt to ensure germination and early growth, and may be wondering how common this activity … Continue reading “Watering the garden in April – how unusual is this?”
Much has been written/spoken in recent weeks about the amount of rain that has fallen this winter (December-February) in southern England (and other regions) of the United Kingdom. But several … Continue reading “A wet winter – and what might come next?”
A brief overview After a dry start to December 2013 (just 11.3 mm of rain fell in the 33 days ending 0900 UTC on 15 December at the Department’s weather … Continue reading “December 2013-January 2014 in Reading: Wet and, at times, stormy”
The first five months of the year in Reading had been cool – with an average temperature 1.8 degC below normal. After the coldest May in Reading for 17 years, … Continue reading “The summer of 2013 in Reading”
The winter of 2012-13 definitely extended into late March (and, as I write this, into early April). Figure 1 (courtesy of Mike Stroud, our meteorological observer) sums up why it … Continue reading “2012-2013 – a long winter and a cold Easter”