Watford certainly has its abundance of lovely parks and a new one was officially opened on the 11th September 2020 by the Peter Taylor the Mayor of Watford. It has taken a good few years to get to this point from the initial idea by the previous Mayor Dorothy Thornhill to the splendid park we…
Its been a tale of two halves this month with a warmish first half and then it tailed off to become quite cold. At one stage during the month the CET was around 15.5c during the final week. This then plunged to finally finish at 13.9c which was 0.3c above the long term average. The…
It has been a strange month, if you lived in the south of the UK you most likely would have enjoyed a warm summer month. But up north it was very wet and coolish. The summer heat only arrived for a couple of days and big thunderstorms hit the NW of England and Scotland. Temperature-wise…
July ended up just below average the first month of the year to do this, but it would have been well below average if it wasn’t for the last few days. The fourth highest temperature ever recorded in the UK with 37.8c! Over the CET region, the temperature came out at 15.7c which was -0.3c…
It’s not been a flaming June this year but it has been a warmer than average month. We had one intense heatwave which lasted for 3 days but the rest of the month has been average and sometimes cool. Here in Watford, it has been warmer than normal but we seemed to have missed all…
Imagine Watford Festival was back again for its 9th year in 2019, bringing fun and entertainment to Watford’s streets. It took place between 28th & 30th June and it brought local and international performers from around the world to perform on our streets. The festival is one of my favourite events in Watford and I…
What a month it has been with glorious sunshine and warm temperatures you could have been mistaken it was July. A record-breaking month as well with the sunniest May on record and smashing it by quite a bit and amazingly it was the sunniest month on record. It was also the driest month, more about…
It’s not every day you see an amazing display of orange poppies in Watford, someone had scattered some poppy seeds and forgotten about them and now there is a glorious orange field. Mixed with some pink and white poppies and thistles which will bloom in June will produce a kaleidoscope of colour. These orange poppies…
The beautiful Cheslyn Gardens is now in full bloom as spring is near its end. Sitting in one of the many seats in the garden you could be transported far away as you hear the birds singing, collecting food for their young. You can hear the water rushing over the pond’s waterfall in the background…
Its been a record month for sunshine across the UK which makes a change from the start of the year. April showers didn’t appear until the last two days of the month. With the country on lockdown, it has been so tempting to head for the beach, you just know when the lockdown finishes it…
