March almost recovers

I was tempted to post an item this morning saying that I now believe in climate change, and that I've just sent off my membership dues to Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, sold my car and become vegetarian. However, I doubt it would take my one follower (thanks Alex, whoever you are!) and 2 or 3 other readers long to notice the date, so it's not really going to work.

Anyway, back in reality, now that March 2010 has officially ended, we can see that what may have looked like being a record-breaking month in several respects has managed to pull itself together and come out almost normal.

For the first three weeks, we had essentially no rain, making it look like the month might be the driest on record. However, in the last week, and particularly in the last 3 days of the month, we had a fairly major storm that brought the rainfall level back to where it should be. As detailed in the last post, Monifieth escaped the serious side of the storm, as all we had were some strong winds and some rain. All I had to do was repair a few fence panels in the back yard. Elsewhere in the north of Britain there were some pretty serious snowfalls and wind damage.

March also started on a distinctly chilly note, but the middle of the month was fairly mild. Although the final days of the month reverted to mid-February in the temperature domain, the average for the month was about normal.