Welcome to the 35th quarterly newsletter in the current series.
Weather
OCTOBER: The month began with a southerly air stream resulting in some exceptionally high temperatures for the time of year. Locally it was 20ºC on the 2nd. The rest of the month was generally mild but the first frost of the winter period occurred overnight on the 17-18th. The day temperature then dropped to 7ºC but picked up again on the 21st. It was sunny most days until the end of the month. The mean temperature for England was 2ºC above the 1971-2000 average. Rainfall was heavy locally………………