"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
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What date in June does this arrive ?

Last year it didn't arrive until the beginning of July.

I think Lamb referred to it as the 'Return of the Westerlies' and I think
he said they generally occur around mid to late June.

This year has been so different weatherwise to previous years that I
wouldn't be at all surprised if, after 3 summers where the westerlies
returned strongly during late June/early July, that it didn't happen this
year and we stayed in this 'blocking' situation all summer long.

Trouble is, if we do stay in this current weather regime, and with
everything already very dry, we could be heading for a crispy brown
countryside by mid-summer, something that we haven't seen since 1995.

Who knows!

Grass is growing like there is no tomorrow up here Nick :-(

It was cut last Tuesday and is already another inch higher.

I've never seen the grass brown in Haytor, in 2003 it did stop growing and
started to yellow a bit, but never brown and I have never had a drought,
even now the soil is very moist giving perfect growing conditions and the
plants and veg are loving it.

Will
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