April was a month of contrasts it started with a warm 1st week and the last week of the month, in the middle it was very cool with some late severe frosts and some places snow. April is usually the month of showers but not the case this year as it was very dry, especially…
It has been an amazing spell of settled weather over the last 2 weeks of the month. Which has culminated in the highest February temperature ever recorded! These records are the longest in the world and go back to 1656. It is also significant that previously no winter month had ever gone over 20c before….
It was a cool summers day as we went on a charity walk down to Beachy Head lighthouse. With a distance of around 2 miles, walking down the steep cliffs and boulders it was a long trek along the difficult terrain towards the lighthouse. It takes around 2 hours to walk there, so good walking…
It was bird spotting morning in Cassiobury Park a couple of weeks ago, over 30 people met up with avid bird watcher Mark Sutton. We did a tour of the park from near the hub, down towards the nature reserve, along the canal and back round to the hub. We managed to spot 27 different…
On a cold winters day I ventured into RHS Wisley’s glass house with Surrey Creatives Meetup group, to see some butterflies. It certainly was a lovely experience although coming from the cold to tropical heat of the glasshouse hot. To take photographs you needed to acclimatise as your lenses misted up. It took about 15…
If you just looked at the statistics this month you would have thought it has been a warm month. But it has felt much colder with a few snow events. The temperatures at night haven’t been that low which is why the statistics have come out as milder than average. The final CET for England…
This was certainly a month of two halves, July started with hot temperatures and ended cooler and wetter and practically autumnal. Mid month there was some spectacular thunder storms across the south. It was also a country of 2 halves with the north not having much summery weather than compared to the south. UK Stats…
November certainly has been a big change month. After 6 months of above average temperatures November turned out significantly colder by -1.0c below average. Scotland was even colder than average with it running at -1.6c. It was also the sunniest November since records began. Over the UK the month was dominated by high pressure to…
Its been a remarkable dry month for July with only 6mm of rain falling in Watford. There was 29 dry days and 18 of them were in a row. The last time that occurred in my records was back in 1995. But with the dryness it hasn’t been especially hot with the highest temperature at…
This is the 2nd part of my blog about the photos I have taken in 2015. You can read the 1st part here. The 2nd part is from May to August with the height of spring and summer. Some of the highlights include being invited on to a tour of Tower bridge with the new glass walkway….
