The UK MET Office released the final autumn forecast yesterday; this essentially covers the period to the end of November. It’s pretty simple: temperatures average or below, rainfall average or below. So dry and cool, and compared to the last few years, a nice change. So much of our winter weather has become “dealing with […]
London has had its first October snowfall in over 70 years, according to the Guardian, the last one having been in 1934. And I saw my first air-frost in Ireland in three or four years - it was freezing as we got home last night, and there was ice in puddles and frost on hedges […]
When did you get your first frost this year? For many parts of Ireland (although, I think, not Dublin city), it was last night. Temperatures had dropped to 3°C last night around 9pm, and even the dodgy greenhouse thermometer on our kitchen window was reading 4°C at some minutes to 7am this morning. There are […]