Although June was wetter than normal in most parts of the country, this was not the case here. The first rain did not fall until 10th and we missed most of the thundery downpours that caused flooding further south and east. Nevertheless, a few heavy showers and more unsettled conditions later in the month maintained...
MINE WASTE LWS, CRONTON. KNOWSLEY. SJ471891 (Sat Nav. WA8 5QN) Sat 11 June 2016. Leader: Dave Earl Weather: 17°C. Mostly cloudy, scattered showers with a warm high of 21° Data from Foreca . . Behind the locked gates of Cronton Colliery you encounter a 43 hectare derelict landscape since the closure of...
HASKAYNE CUTTING, West Lancs SD 357 089, Explorer 285. Haskayne Cutting lies 3 miles west of Ormskirk on the Lancashire coastal plain. Lancashire Wildlife Trust manages the full 1.7 miles length under licence from United Utilities. It is a disused railway line and provides an important corridor for wildlife. A surprising diversity of habitats...
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...