Mark Hunt’s Weather Assessment
29th March – 5th April 2010
You've probably seen on the T.V. the forecast of a return to winter this week and it looks that way with a cold low moving down from the north during Monday night (29th) / Tuesday morning (30th) and turning the wet start of the week into sleet and snow depending on altitude. Ireland and Scotland will receive the first sleet / snow on Monday evening (29th) and Tuesday morning (30th) with the Wicklow mountains in for a fair dusting.
This snow / sleet will track eastwards into Wales on Tuesday morning (30th) before reaching the Midlands on Tuesday night and the rest of the UK early Wednesday morning (31st) with a lot of moisture falling on Wednesday as either rain, sleet or snow with the latter the more north and high up you are - Wednesday definitely looks like being the wettest day of the week.
Winds by this stage will be from the north and strong to blustery so not a nice feeling at all especially for the first Sand Martins and Osprey that I saw today at Eyebrook Reservoir, they'll wish they stayed in Africa an extra week me thinks.
By Thursday (1st April) the cold low will start to move off, but that will still mean blustery showers and cool conditions and, if the skies clear, a night frost.
Good Friday looks like being cool with heavy, blustery showers but slowly the temperatures will rise over the Easter weekend as the winds swing round to the west again to bring milder weather by Easter Monday.
No great shakes agronomically, it's definitely cool-season granular weather at the moment with ammonium sulphate / nitrate and potassium nitrate products the order of the day. Growth will no doubt drop back a bit as the temperatures drop this week but April looks like starting as it once used to, with sunshine and showers, so in other words, good growing weather.
Mark Hunt
Technical Director
Headland Amenity Ltd
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