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Horticultural Society’s Chief Horticulturalist Guy Barter highlighted how important the month’s weather can be for many gardeners and growers. He said: “April showers can indeed bring May flowers, but it is quite common for cold, dry weather with east winds in southern and eastern regions inhibiting plant

Barter. He said: “Gardeners will have been grateful for a break in January from the rainy autumn and winter weather that has hindered getting the garden ready for spring. “Although conditions have been pleasant, a cold, but not bitter, January is favoured by gardeners as it holds back the spring

.” It looks like the good weather this weekend will also be good for gardening. Guy Barter, is the RHS chief horticulturalist. He said: “So far this spring, weather conditions will have delayed some tasks in the garden. "With a fine forecast for the three-day weekend across most of the UK, gardeners

records are held by stations in Eastern England. The highest known temperature recorded in the area was 37.3 °C at Cavendish on 10 August 2003 and 36.9 °C was recorded that day at Cambridge Botanic Garden and 36.5 °C there on 3 August 1990. The highest UK temperature stands at 38.5 °C at Faversham

As we approach year-end, we’ve highlighted the most notable climate features of the year, including two all-time temperature records:  Warmest winter day on record: 21.2 °C recorded at Kew Garden on 26 February  Hottest day on record: 38.7 °C recorded at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on 25

or droplets and sunlight. Finally, Isaac Newton proved that white light is made up of a spectrum of colours by splitting light with a prism. His discovery, together with the work of others before him, finally explained how rainbows form. He also noted that the sequence of the colours of a rainbow never

-sea and swell fields to forecasters and customers. Development of automatic sub-grid cell blocking grid generation. Investigation of Garden Sprinkler Effect alleviation of a second order advection scheme that has been added to the Met Office's WAVEWATCH III ®implementation. In a drive to bring Met

A REPORT OF THE KENYA NATIONAL CLIMATE CAFÉ HELD ON 1 ST OCTOBER 2019 IN OLIVE GARDENS HOTEL, NAIROBI KENYA Participants during the National climate café in Nairobi 1 Introduction On 1 st October 2019, NECJOGHA organized the first ever national climate café in Nairobi Kenya. The cafe was attended

of meteorology must start with mention of the great Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC). While may of his ideas in relation to meteorology were somewhat wide of the mark he can be credited with coining the term ‘meteorology’ which derives from the Greek words meteoron ‘thing high up’ and logia

forecasters’ in Nairobi slums - August 2020 WISER knowledge reference number WISER0288 Weather warning and forecast service brings benefits to East African nations - December 2020 WISER knowledge reference number WISER0287 Kenya: Slum Weather Data Project Wins Praises - December 2020 WISER knowledge reference