The month was mostly warm, humid and wet, with above average temperatures. Some nights were almost balmy and on Guy Fawkes Night, on the 5th of November it registered fifteen degrees whilst damp and rainy.
I took a trip out around the field in mid October, to check the lie of the land. It was a lovely sunny evening, a gentle breeze with a slight chill and several varieties of birds chirrupping away to each other in the waning light of the day.
Sitting out at the top of the field on a damp morning – and there were many – several colours stood out in the mist. The beautiful lilac of the Artichoke flowerheads, we had so many this year we
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What a month of contrasts. The UK weather brought downpours that caused flooding and power cuts but also burning suns wildfires and above average hours of sunshine. The trees were bowed down, heavy with fruit, we had daily supplies of warm, red tomatoes,
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April brought an abundance of events, politics, weather and growth – but not the sort advocated by the chancellor Rachel Reeves! Our moods were like yoyos,
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Once again records have been broken in England, this time for the most amount of sun in the month of March. It was also a very dry month and sadly contributed to several
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Lots of bright, dry, sunny and cold days for the first half of this month, rain and some harsh southerly winds followed bringing down trees between St Austell and Truro on,
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The month started with an, ‘artic maritime airmass bringing cold temperatures to the UK’ (MET Office). I looked up the January posts for previous years to compare weather fronts. In 2021 there was two weeks of bitterly cold weather here on The Lizard with temperatures,
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“Imagine a Cornwall where nature thrives, with our wildlife and wild places valued and enjoyed by all…where healthy oceans, soils, rivers, wetlands, woodlands, moors,
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All sorts of events on both the world and domestic front were staged this month. There was COP 29, COP 16, the March for Clean Water and the much talked about budget from our government to name a few. How much was achieved?,
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The first day of the month walking in Tremayne woods – a local walk close to us – Autumn had arrived overnight, a crisp morning with a cold blue sky and racing pink clouds.
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We had some spectacular storms during mid September, violet grey skies and orange flashes from sheet lightening and thunder claps louder than I have heard since being here. It was a month of unsettled weather, vast quantities of rain with all the usual fallout from such
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