The Met Office ‘blog’ tells us that the UK weather in October was pretty average. Temperatures, sunshine hours and rainfall were all roughly normal. Rachael Parks measured 95.5 mm of precipitation in her Formby garden; also about average for the month. There was one particularly wet day on 16th and a named storm ‘Ashley’ on...
Although we didn’t get the deluges that affected the Midlands and Southern England, 20 ‘rain-days’ and 112mm of precipitation meant that September in Formby was distinctly wetter than normal. We also had below average sunshine and it was slightly cooler than expected, though there were a couple of warm spells early on and towards the...
Wildlife notes August 2024 Dr Phil Smith Despite the opinion of many, August was a dry month, England having 62% of average rainfall. That is comparable to the 48.5mm measured by Rachael Parks, which was about 64% of normal August rainfall for Formby. It was a windy month, including a named storm on 22nd-23rd, but...
July was the season of the Ragwort, which, with Wild Parsnip and Wild Carrot, proliferated on the Sefton dunes to an extent I have never previously witnessed in over 50 years. “Ten-thousand saw I at a glance” was more appropriate to Ragwort than to Wordsworth’s Daffodils. Ragwort has the popular reputation of being poisonous to...