Substantial showers during the last three days, including small hail on the 6th, bring the total precipitation for the first week of May to 30mm which is 52% of the 30-year average for the whole month. Although each day there have been several hours of global sunshine between the showers, the direct sunshine has been limited to around two hours.
The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm at 0800 is now consistently in double figures. During the sunnier periods I have noted that the temperature has risen to 16C or 17C.
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