With small amounts of rain on only nine days during the month, May reinforced a statistically significant trend of lower spring rainfall here since 2000. A recent paper in the International Journal of Climatology confirms this trend for the UK as a whole, linking it to atmospheric pressure changes over Greenland brought about by...
MERSEYSIDE NATURE 2015 Dec 2014 – Jan 2015: Issue No. 22 1 Editorial 2/3 WILDLIFE NOTES December 2014 Dr Phil Smith 4 FEATURES OF HIGHFIELD MOSS SJ613956 Hugh Harries 5 5 5 DUMBLEDORE THE SEAL COMMON LIZARDS IN ST HELENS A TALE OF TWO TURTLES Bob Jude Bob Jude Steve White via Phil...
Although measurable rain fell on ten days during the month, quantities were very small and temperatures above average. September therefore ended up as another desperately dry month, the duneland ground water-table being the lowest recorded since the drought of the mid -1990s. However, the often sunny weather brought out lots of late-summer insects, including one...
August was a rather cool and unsettled month, though rainfall amounts were no more than average, contrasting with record deluges in the south. The rain that did fall soon evaporated making little impact on the depleted water-table. The 50th anniversary bash for Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve on 8th fortunately coincided with a sunny...