June 2013 Weather

  Thursday 20th June It did rain yesterday – a few milimetres only, but it did rain – my rain gauge failed to register so I have to dismantle it, again! Monday 3rd June May was a colder and cloudier month than is usual – a high temperature of 28.8 on...

May 2013 Weather

  Monday 27th MayWell, in spite of my rain gauge reading “0,0”, it did rain today, enough to have registered. I shall have to inspect the gadget for earwigs etc. On our way back from Valencia city there was evidence of hail on the motorway – deep and...

April 2013 Weather

  Wednesday May 1st – MAY DAY!77,8 mm of rain in April – proves the wisdom of the Spanish proverb ” en abril, aguas mil” – in April, a thousand showers. Still, only 8 possibly 9, days with rain. Thursday April 25tRAIN! Proving the locals...

March 2013 weather

March 31stOnly missed 3 days in March – Spring now really here, poppies flowering on the bancales, everything growing, I´ve even got half a dozen potatoes up! We´ve already had  a couple of meals from the broad beans. The best time of the year starts now. But it...

February 2013

March 5thSo that was February – a little over 70,0mm of rain, a low of 2,5º in the early hours of the 25th, 24 days without rain and a peak of 23,7ºc on the 2nd. there were three consecutive days with gusts of wind over 80 kph, 12th, 13th and 14th. February...