frostalot

I love New Year. I too am now coming into my golden years. But life goes on and just like the British weather it gets more interesting as the years roll by. I look at life like a thunderstorm. It can be very stormy and blustery at times but out of it comes a silver lining. The only thing I can't stand about it these days is the sording fire works. They have been going off now since 6 ok it sounds like WW3 out there. So I would like to wish all of you a Happy and a Prosperous New Year and hope that 2015, brings some memorable weather events. How about a nice long hot Summer and a Winter that last for over 4 months with snow 5 feet deep. That would make it a real brilliant year.

I never write winter off until the end of April and can still remember a couple of really bad frosts as late as middle June. One we had managed to kill of all of my vegetable plats it was that hard a frost. So far my readings here in south Derbyshire for this month are a mean max of 7.5c, mean min 1.6c and the mean at 4.5c which is 0.3 above average. Rainfall stands at 51mm which is 32.4mm below my highest rainfall total. The yearly rainfall 624mm and stands somewhere in the middle of my rainfall yearly totals. I don't for one moment think we have seen the back of this winter far from it as I don't think our winters really start till after the new year. Lets wait until we see what next month and February have in store for us before we start to get out our swimwear and sunglasses. British weather must be one of the worst to define anywhere in the world, as things can change so suddenly, from a bright sunny day to a raging storm in a matter of hours. Looking at things now it is not doing as said with the wind now shifting to the S to SE, with the temperature hovering around the 5.2c mark. Can see it changing to much colder conditions again this weekend.