It was a cool start to Thursday but it did eventually manage to warm up by late morning to give a sunny afternoon. Once again there was plenty of rain about with flash flooding reported in the south of the UK. It remained dry here until late in the evening when we had our usual sprinkling of rain amounting to 1.2mm.
Any regular readers will know that our main problem this year in both garden and plot is lack of rain. Following on from a dry March each subsequent month has resulted in below average rainfall. We are still waiting for a really wet day or days to get the ground into a suitable state for digging.
Courtesy of Mal who gave me a link to Edinburgh Botanic Gardens weather information I've produced a comparison of July’s weather for Edinburgh and Ossett.
The first chart shows wet days together with maximum and minimum temperatures for July. I think we've had slightly better temperatures which is to be expected as we’re about 170 miles south of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh wins comfortably in the rainfall stakes with 448.1mm compared with our 218.0mm between January and July this year.
We've definitely had a difficult growing year due to the lack of rain, I suspect Edinburgh could have managed with a little less.
We have no rain forecast now until next Tuesday so that should give me time to finish lifting my remaining potato crop. It also means our winter crops will need more watering.
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Wow Martyn, that's amazing! I'm so impressed with the clarity of your graphics. I'll post a linking entry from my blog.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind betting (from the anecdotal reports) that the stats for August will show a dramatic disparity. (And boy did we grumble about the lack of rain in April!!!)
Hope you get some reasonable rain soon.