On 01/09/19 10:25, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:
On 31/08/19 20:59, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
On 31/08/2019 20:28, Martin Brown wrote:
I think of the first two or three weeks of September as transitional
from summer to autumn - in some years they are summery (an Indian
Summer); in other years they are autumnal.
This year I already have some thermally sensitive plants (including
acer, fig, ginko and lilies) showing signs of autumn colour. I don't
understand how since there has not been a cold enough night to my
knowledge. More usually they do this in mid-september.
It's been a funny old year. After a dry winter we've had a wet summer,
with periods of exceptional heat, and a remarkably chilly spell for
early August.
I can only assume you are north-west of a line from about The Wash to
Weymouth. On the other side of that line it has been incredibly dry (see
the "Mildew" thread a week or so ago).
No, it hasn't been. It has been extremely variable, often over distances
of less than a mile. We have had a lot of hot, dry weather, but also
occasional heavy downpours, which some locations got and others didn't.
It is variable over all areas - even the wet ones. After all, this is
the UK! I was just replying generally to SRH's generalisation at it
being a wet summer. As I pointed out in the "Mildew" thread, even around
here the rainfall for the first 6 months of the year ranged from 150 to
250 mm. But even we don't have it as bad as Southampton West, where
Southern Water have applied for a drought
order
https://www.southernwater.co.uk/hampshire-drought)
Fortunately, our water is supplied from aquifers under the South Downs.
It has a rather high Calcium content, but there's no water shortage at
present, and none on the horizon.
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Jeff