Archive for the Tag 'Met Office'

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get!

How apt these words from Mark Twain were today.
Woke up in Lewes to brilliant sunshine and temperatures of 20c but, as I took a train and carbon free boat ride to the Hampton Court Flower Show, the weather changed. Great big clouds moved across the sky casting a shadow over the 25 acre show [...]

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Met Office highlights Climate Change at Hampton Court

The Met Office have published the following key facts about climate change and gardening . These support everything that I talk about on this blog and at http://www.globalgardening.org
Faster: UK gardeners cut their lawns almost two weeks earlier than they did in 2001.
Slower: The yield of fruit trees is reduced when the buds fail to break [...]

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