Thursday, March 28, 2024

May was too cold to think of casting clouts

Up to the time of writing, May has been quite cold, with the mean temperature to the 19th at 10.6C, which is -0.8C below average for the month. Rainfall, meanwhile, was already 51mm, which is 90% of the average for the entire month.

April passes with few showers and plenty of sun

April has been a generally dry and quite warm and sunny month to date (22nd) with only 26.5mm of rain – which is 44 per cent of the average for the month.

Dry spell heralds springtime

March has been a very dry month to date (27th) with only 30mm rain – slightly less than half the amount expected for all of March locally.

It’s been the coldest winter in 18 years

It’s been a very cold winter so far, from January 1 to now (February 19) the coldest locally since 1991.

Year ends cold and begins colder still

Alvechurch amateur weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes.

Warm, wet and cloudy end to the autumn

Alvechurch amateur weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes.

Mild and dry with sunny highlight

Alvechurch amateur weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes.

A weather eye

Alvechurch amateur weatherman Phil Thomas tells Richard Peach why we shouldn’t get too upset about a wet summer.

Village Farmer’s Diary

. . . with Mark Elliott of Groveley Farm, Hopwood.