Total monthly rainfall: 48 millimetres. Maximum daily rainfall: 16.5 mm (8^th July). There were 11 days with total cloud-cover for at least part of the day. Maximum temperature on the hottest day was 33°C on July 31^st.  Maximum temperature on the 7 coldest days was 19°C. The remaining 23 days were fairly evenly matched at between 20 and 25°C. As summer is a season of high evaporation and transpiration, the moderate rainfall proved insufficient to prevent pond-water falling to extremely low levels. Strong winds overnight on 3^rd/4^th July brought down a squirrel drey in a big bundle on the woodland floor. Perhaps it took revenge by strip-barking a 30 year old ash tree on the 9^th.

Total monthly rainfall: 34 millimetres. Maximum daily rainfall: 12.5 mm (18^th June).

This mediocre rainfall left our ponds at low levels for the time of year, and our soils very dry. Measurable rain fell on 9 days of the month, and there was 100% cloud cover on at least part of 12 days during the month. Maximum temperature was 31°C on June 25^th, and there were 16 days when the temperature topped 20°C, but fell to 15°C on the 4^th and 15^th June. Strong winds on the 5^th, 6^th,27^th, 28^th, and 29^th brought down small-to-medium sized branches, including a squirrel’s drey.

Total Monthly rainfall: 11.5 mm. Maximum daily rainfall: 4.5 mm (2^nd May)

There was a totally inadequate rainfall during the month, resulting in low pondwater levels and very dry soils. There were only 9 days with 100% cloud cover for at least part of the day. Maximum temperature on the warmest day was 26°C on the 26^th May. On the coldest day it was 11°C on the 11^th May. There were 16 days when the temperature was 20°C or more. The most noticeable effects of this climate change are a large increase in the area of water lilies across the lake, and a similar increase in the number of goat willow saplings around the bank.

Total monthly rainfall: 31mm. Maximum daily rainfall: 25.5mm (28^th April).

Altogether there were 4 days when measurable rain fell, and 10 days when cloud-cover reached 100% for at least part of the day. Unusually, it was an April with almost no April showers!

Maximum temperature on the warmest day was 24°C on the 11^th and 23^rd. On the coldest day it was 10°C on the 1st and 28^th. There were 9 days in the month when the temperature reached at least 20°C. On 6 days during the month fresh-to-strong winds brought down many twenty-to- thirty-year old trees and snapped trunks and branches of many others.

Please note that field meetings remain cancelled until further notice and that we are keeping this situation under review based on the Government rules and guidance.

 

 

However, if you are recording in a local patch or interesting site during lockdown, please consider providing a short write-up for inclusion in the Bulletin for 2020. Otherwise, it could be a fairly slim volume without all the usual meeting reports.