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than it has over the last week or so.”   The drop in temperatures is a risk for some of the nation’s gardeners. The Royal Horticultural Society’s Guy Barter said: “Colder weather will slow plant growth and inhibit plums and pears pollination as insects fly less in cold dull weather.  “Limited rain

temperature in the UK? 38.7 °C in Cambridge University Botanic Garden on 25 July 2019. 5. What is climate change? Climate change is a large-scale, long-term shift in Earth’s weather patterns, leading to increasing temperatures, rising sea levels and changes in nature. www.metoffice.gov.uk | 4 © Crown

in the Widsor area. Around the rest of the UK, if you are attending a street party or garden party or attending a sporting events on Saturday you can expect plenty of warm sunny spells in most places, although there is the chance of some low cloud affecting coasts of southeast England and East Anglia

.” With the warm weather forecast for the weekend, National Trust Curation and Experience Director, John Orna Ornstein, said: "This Bank Holiday weekend will be a great opportunity to get out and soak up some sunshine in the coastal sites, gardens and landscapes in our care." Beyond the weekend high

mid-week, and bringing with it the unsettled weather that we’ll see for much of the week. Some clear spells are still around later in the week, with the best of any sunshine likely to be in the south later in the week.”  The drop in temperatures is a risk for some of the nation’s gardeners

heat wave in the final weeks of July, with Heathrow and Kew Gardens recording the highest temperature of the year so far on 30 July with 32.0°C. Rainfall in June was below average across the country, with the UK recording just 55.4mm of rainfall (72% of the long-term average). July was wetter

on record for the UK as a whole in a series from 1910. Many parts of southern and eastern Scotland have received over twice the normal June rainfall.   A number of Scottish counties have had their wettest June on record. Stations at both Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and RAF Leuchars, among others, have had

of hibernation and migration, both of which could be observed in any garden or woodland, but reveal that migration had not been conceived before regular international travel. An interesting example of the use of astrology in Weather Lore is Leonard Digges, 1605 ‘Prognostication everlasting of right good effect

just over one half (53%) of the summer’s average rainfall. The Cambridge University Botanic Garden recorded an all-time high temperature of 38.7 °C on Thursday 25 July. Across the UK, the average temperature for July has been 1.2 °C above the long-term average for 1981-2010. However, parts of Eastern

Slow-worms at the Met Office Slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) A long-term resident at the Met Office, the slow-worm is a native species to Eurasia and they are inhabitants of grasslands, scrub, woodlands and gardens. Slow-worms are one of six species of reptile found in the UK, and the only one