by hoegrangequarry | Jul 4, 2024 | June 2024
Hello Everyone, It was a welcome change to get a small sustained period of sunny skies and some heat for a few days culminating with a temperature of 28c here in Derby on the 26th of June 2024 – thankfully this helped some butterfly species to both appear and...
by hoegrangequarry | Jun 24, 2024 | June 2024
Hello Everyone, Well a combination of heavy thundery rain coupled with a cold northerly air flow during the recent past resulted in a period of 11 days without any sunshine and heat – a sure recipe for a disastrous situation relating to our local butterflies and...
by hoegrangequarry | Jun 20, 2024 | June 2024
Hello Everyone, After one of the worst weeks in June here in Derbyshire weather wise, including a couple of mornings when the temperature here in Derby got down to just 5c, even though there are only about 7 hours of darkness, (Do you remember when snow caused the...
by hoegrangequarry | Jun 11, 2024 | June 2024
Well the Met Office informs us that Spring 2024 was the warmest on record, as well as being dull and wet, and surprisingly my weather notes from our garden in Derby supports that as we had only 3 frosts during March to May 2024 against 11 in the same period during...
