I've held out against turning the CH back on from its 'frost protection' mode but this morning it was 5.9C at 07:00 outside.
So the heating is back on for the moment.
On pondering if this weather was atypical I remember that last year around this time the Suffolk Show had the second day cancelled because of extreme high winds plus heavy rain.
Pah, tropical. Night before last 0.6 C minimum, last night was warm with a min of 1.8 C. Odd bit of snow yesterday, very wet sleet this morning.
Currently 3.5 C F5 NE'ly Wind chill about -10 C.
I don't think it's that out of the ordinary as such but the late spring is. Our daffs are just going over, it's only this week that the Rowans have started to break bud, the Birches were thinking about it but appear to have stopped. At a rough guesstimate I'd say we are about four weeks behind "normal".
The Met Office figures for this month are, of course, only provisional, but the last time we had averages this low in May was 1965. That was when it was claimed we were heading for a new ice age.
I guess the power companies are rubbing their hands in glee. I feel sorry for the poor elderly who struggle to keep warm in the Winter, some must be desperate now.
I was idly wondering how much this is affecting the economic recovery. I hear wheat prices are going up due to poor growing weather. We're running our heating at the moment ... that's all money that can't be spent elsewhere ....
On Friday 24 May 2013 07:24 David.WE.Roberts wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Last year, IIRC we had a short spell of flaming heat in June was it? Then some fool announced the hosepipe ban and that was it for the rest of the year.
This year it got quite toasty around May Day. However I have a pile of guttering round the back and I was going to book yesterday and today off to fit it (having spent 3 weekends doing all the enabling works, drains, last bit of gutterboard, marking level datum marks all the way around to gauge the 1:600 fall against -
(that adds up around 2 sides to nearly 30mm and I don;t have a lot of height to play with and I don;t want the guttering coming below the board as that looks wrong).
I'm hoping for 2 dry warmish days next week. Still gave me a chance to order a set of LadderMats (rubber grips that can be used to level up) and a cheap standoff so I do not have to lean backwards (soffits are 450mm deep including gutter - and obviously I cannot rest the ladder on the guttering I'm fitting).
Naaah, blame wodney speed, he's just re-surfaced and the weathers gone crap again :)
My song thrushes are a good month late this year, only just finishing laying their first clutches of eggs, this time last year they had raised a set of chicks and were a few days off hatching the next clutch.
I seem to recall lots of stuff about "we need rain, but not ordinary rain cos that just runs off, we need torrential rain that carries on for months to restore ground water levels"...
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