We've had very mild weather through the first two weeks of November, and only 5.6 mm rain. But that's about to change. A low pressure system will be coming through Monday and it will be very wet, pretty windy, and followed by a cold snap for the rest of the week. It's already cold today compared with what it has been. Through the 15th of November, our average temperature has been 11.8C, exactly what it averaged in October. It was a dark couple of weeks and our solar radiation was very low, producing little electricity from the sunlight. I have not checked the Pinot Noir vines this week. I'll go up tomorrow and see if there's been any progress, but I doubt it. Not enough light to complement the warmth.
We're in that time of year when we get beautiful sunsets and we're awake to see them at 4:30 pm. Today we also have the Super Beaver Moon causing astronomically high tides. It was too dark to go out and see as the moon had not risen yet. But we'll have the same in the morning.
It's a good thing that it will get cold this week as the wasps have still been active and attacking the beehives. Lots of other insects milling about so I am hoping to get a bit of a correction there. Met Eireann is predicting snow and sleet in the hills of the North. I wonder if we'll see a white Croagh Patrick this week. I don't think we saw one day of that last year.
The darkness seems more abrupt and more disturbing this year.
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