Not many May flowers

We did get some sunshine at last during May, but we had to wait a good while for it to arrive. The weather pattern has been unusual this year; May as April, was a dry month. We did have a respite over the Bank Holiday weekend, with some well needed rain.

The first half of the month started clouded and quite breezy; the sun for us did not really show itself until about 17 May. I must say, the weather gods looking kindly upon us for our week photographing sea birds. The weekly temperatures showed a big difference between the maximum and minimum recorded; 32.5 and 0.5 degrees.

The outlook into early June is good, with high pressure set to bring warmer weather towards the end of the first week. Lets hope it stays, but not too warm. What we need is some nice pleasant warm sunshine and some rain for the wild plants.

Mean maximum temperature                  25.2°c
Mean minimum temperature                    3.2°c