Hawthorn Late this Year?

[Khriss]

3 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Nah, JC put DA in charge of it and it’s beeen a balls up ever since ? 

 

We’re in leaf here (strong Tory seat mind!)

Yea ! You an yr bloody middle class trees ! You made the other areas go on strike ! K

[Big J]

6 hours ago, Woodworks said:

Yes it was not average here (220mm of rain)

 

From the MetOffice site 

UK last month

March 2018

March began with an exceptionally cold easterly flow and widespread snow, and daytime temperatures remained below freezing in many parts of the country.  It turned milder from the south during the first week, and until mid-month the weather was generally wet and cloudy for most with low pressure dominant, but north-western areas remained drier.  A second cold easterly outbreak brought widespread snow on the 17th and 18th, though this was not as severe as at the beginning of the month.  After a brief dry sunny spell, the milder unsettled regime returned for the rest of the month.

The provisional UK mean temperature was 3.8 °C, which is 1.6 °C below the 1981-2010 long-term average, but it was significantly less cold than March 2013.  Mean maximum temperatures were between 1.5 and 2.0 °C below average in most areas, while mean minimum temperatures were mostly between 1.0 and 1.5 °C below, but were nearer 2 °C below in Northern Ireland.  Rainfall was 110% of average, and some places, notably Devon, the Midlands and some eastern coastal counties, had over twice the normal amount, but in contrast Cumbria, and western Scotland to the north of the Central Lowlands, were much drier than average.  Sunshine was 83% of average, and it was dull over most of England and Wales and eastern Scotland, but most areas bordering the Irish Sea had near average sunshine and it was a sunny March in the Western Isles.

The UK monthly extremes were as follows:  A maximum temperature of 16.6 °C was recorded at Colwyn Bay (Clwyd) on the 10th.  A minimum temperature of -10.7 °C was recorded at Cawdor Castle (Nairnshire) on the 1st.  In the 24 hours ending at 0900 GMT on the 15th, 70.6 mm of rain fell at Trassey Slievenaman (County Down). Wind gusts of 73 knots (84 mph) were recorded at Warcop (Cumbria) on the 2nd and 17th.  A snow depth of 57 cm was recorded at Little Rissington (Gloucestershire) on the 4th.

Very interesting. 

 

Winter was very consistently cold here near Edinburgh. Monthly average temperatures were as follows:

 

November: 3.89c

December: 2.26c

January: 2.1c

February: 1.78c

March: 2.9c

 

As such not much showing signs of life. Daffodils are starting to flower here and there, some growth on some of my pond plants, but that's it. Grass hasn't grown at all yet, and all trees bare. 

[Countryboy]

Cut my lawn on Friday as it was getting very long. Had a couple of nice spring days but back to winter today with rain all day

[Billhook]

Blackthorn has not flowered yet.  "Beware the Blackthorn Winter"

 

 

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

11 hours ago, Khriss said:

Yea ! You an yr bloody middle class trees ! You made the other areas go on strike ! K

Is Hawthorn a middle class tree Khriss?  Do trees abide by social constructs....?   Or are they just "happy" to be in Kernow??

[Khriss]

Yr over-thinking it Kev, come the glorious revolution - all trees will be equal K

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Yr over-thinking it Kev, come the glorious revolution - all trees will be equal K

 

[Khriss]

...I said ' Free' not sad sit-com extra K

[eggsarascal]

Mr Johnson knows about one man revolutions, he's always "fighting the machine".

[IRE David H]

fight the machine, all trees equal haha, farmers get paid for hawtorn, blacktorn, but nothing for gorse,or sally trees. so blacktorn is king of the trees