Nice drop of rain for the garden.

Reasonable rain fell today; 2.2mm by 1500Z. The wind has become quite blustery too, with gusts up to 27kt.  Still cold and cloudy, though, with a max of only 11C. However, it looks like after tomorrow things could get really spring-like, with temperatures up to 20C forecast.

Just tipping over to zonal westerlies?

After early showery rain, the cold morning turned into a reasonable day, with sunny intervals, light winds and a maximum temperature of 16C. By 1400Z the southerly winds had freshened slightly, but even then were only gusting to around 11kt. Cloud thickened later in the afternoon.

At last a change is in the air.

Wind vane has drifted south at last, heralding a change to Atlantic south-westerlies with some welcome rain by late Wednesday. Today is another of those hazy, partly sunny sky days - just about the same as yesterday. Slight ground frost this morning at minus 0.4 C, but 30cm soil temperature now up to 9.2 C, so my fruit and vegetables should be putting on a spurt soon. Lettuce and sprouting broccoli are looking good in the cold frame, while the sweet peppers and tomato plants are doing well in the greenhouse. All the early potatoes are in and the lawn is mown.

Another placid day - and still no rain.

A hazy, lazy kind of day - muted sun through haze and medium cloud this morning, but cloud dispersing by lunchtime. Cooler ENE airstream now over the area, with euromurk limiting visibility to just a few kilometres. Ground beginning to look decidedly dry.

A better day than forecast!

It was certainly better than forecast today, with the temperature reaching 17C with hazy sunny intervals. This was good news for us, as we were able to wear out our three grand daughters by taking them to the park. Lots of insects and one Cabbage White butterfly seen this week, as well as hearing some loud croaking from the pond.

Another beautiful morning!

Saw the sun rising red in the east. After the frost on the roofs burns off it will be another glorious day. Grass minimum this morning minus 2.7C,  30cm soil temp 8.2C. Time to plant some more potatoes!

Spring has Sprung (for the moment, anyway)

Two days above 17C and gardening is well under way! 17.7C yesterday (23rd), 17.2 today (after a foggy start). Promising to be a bit cooler once the NE'erlies kick in tomorrow.

A dry month indeed!

With only 7.0mm falling on my garden in Bracknell, March is turning out to be the second driest month I have recorded since I started in February 2007. The driest I have recorded was 2.2mm in April 2007. As there  is only a week to go, and the weather continuing to be anticyclonic, there may not be much rain to come for the rest of this month, although the end of next week (30th & 31st of March) may see westerlies returning.