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......"The Brierlow Bar to Longnor
Road (B5053) is closed at the single file traffic lights just beyond Glutton
Bridge until 3rd June. The traffic light system is being upgraded. You can still
get to Earl Sterndale from the A515 bookshop junction, but to get to Longnor go
via Flash off the A54 Leek Road, or via Crowdecote off the A515 further south."
Thank you Badger Nadgers for this update...
"A625, Longshaw to Calver
closed, but access to Grouse Inn going down, but not to Chequers Inn. Access to
Chequers if travelling up, but not to Grouse Inn. Access to Froggatt and Curbar
villages ok. Believed to be closed well into July!.
Traffic lights on new bridge due to damage to bridge." Thank you Roger Hart for
this update
AND ..The A57 Snake Pass will
be closed from 9.30am to 3.30pm on Monday, June
6, for the surface dressing to take place.
AND ....THIRTEEN BENDS NEAR BASLOW " Junction of A619, A6020 & B6048 (top of
Thirteen Bends) closed to all traffic until 29/5. Diversion (although not for
HGVs - their diversion is north on A6, then A623), along B6001 Hassop to Calver
Sough, then A623 to Baslow. Chatsworth & Chatsworth Farm Shop only accessible
from B6012 (Baslow to Rowsley road)." Thank you Andy Rolland for this
update...
The A5004 Long Hill Remains Closed until September - you can access Fernilee and
the Shady Oak Pub via Whaley Bridge and Elnor Lane..........
.................Weather Forecast from www.buxtonweather.co.uk -
Saturday Evening and Night: a cool and fairly cloudy evening - through nighttime
patchy showers are just possible - fairly light north easterly winds - Minimum
temperature 6°C.
Sunday:
Sunday: cool and fairly cloudy with only very limited brighter periods - there
will be showers drifting across eastern England from the North Sea - some of
these are likely to reach The Peak District - fairly light north easterly winds
- Maximum Air Temperature 11°C.
Sunday Evening and Night: a mainly dry, but cool and cloudy evening and
nighttime - light south westerly winds - Minimum temperature 6°C.
Monday:
Monday: cool with showers and some drier and brighter periods - fairly light
westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 11°C.
Monday Evening and Night: daytime showers clearing to a mainly dry, but cool and
cloudy, evening and nighttime - light south westerly winds - Minimum temperature
6°C.
Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:
Tuesday: cool with scattered showers and some drier and brighter periods - light
south westerly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 14°C. Wednesday: possible odd
patchy showers and some drier and brighter periods - moderate south westerly
winds - Maximum Air Temperature 16°C. Thursday: mainly dry with bright periods -
moderate north easterly winds - Maximum Air Temperature 16°C. ...................
...HELP PLEASE!! The Buxton Well Dressings are going ahead in
full this year with a full program or events - Wells Dressed on Sunday 3rd July,
James Mellor Funfair on the Market Place from Wednesday 6th July and our
Carnival Procession on Saturday 9th July. The Carnival Day needs you help! – we
do gain some support from the Police on the day, but we are responsible for
“Marshalling” the Carnival Parade – could you please spare a few hours on the
day to assist with crowd management and our road blocks? – without marshals we
cannot go ahead – and we have to be able to demonstrate that we CAN safely
manage events on the day. If you come to help, you will be helping in a group at
various points along the route, not on your own! PLEASE email Richard :
chair@buxtonwelldressing.co.uk
(Or to me mh@22mh.com )
AND - I am sure we all remember the fabulous sight in July 2021, of the Battle of
Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire, flying circuits low over the town - it was
here to celebrate Buxton Well Dressings (which was postponed in 2021) and the
Buxton International Festival. ........I have been liaising with The RAF and The
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and they have now confirmed that they will
once again do a “Flypast” over Buxton on Saturday July 9th 2022 - again to
celebrate both the Buxton International Festival and The Buxton Well Dressings –
this time a BBMF Hawker Hurricane will do the honours – The Hawker Hurricane
played a vital role in The Battle for Britain – The Hurricane, powered by the
same Rolls Royce “Merlin” engine as The Spitfire, will always be remembered for
the vital role it played, with its partner the Spitfire, in hectic battles
during the summer of 1940. Hurricanes destroyed more enemy aircraft during the
Battle of Britain than did all the other air and ground defences
combined..........
After
three weeks of intermittent nest building, by a Blue Tit, in one of the
bird boxes in our garden in Harpur Hill, Buxton, the nest has looked "ready" for
a few days, into the end of April 2022, and today Monday May 2nd we have one
egg!! - .....Well, after the nest with one egg looking chaotic through
Wednesday, and little sign of mother all day (nor partner either in the area),
blue tit came back at dusk and we have woken on Thursday May 5th to what looks
like possibly three eggs - a little worrying that bird seems to leave them for
such long periods ...................... Friday 6th April - we now have four
eggs - still a worry that blue tit is spending long periods away in daytime -
and we have not spotted a partner in the area ...........Saturday May 7th - we
seem to have five eggs - the eggs look quite big on the live stream - they are
TINY! - they measure about 9mm longways - about 3/8" - the size on your small
fingernail!. Mother is spending all night and a little more
daytime in the box AND we have seen partner bringing food on some occasions
today (see May 7th pic above) - .........Sunday May 8th - we have six eggs!
.........................Monday 9th we have seven eggs - mother spending a good
deal of time in the box - would like to see father a little more feeding!
.....By Thursday May 12th, we still have seven eggs - Mother is sitting all
night and much of the day and Father is calling sometimes with food - and we
have seem him fending off sparrows near the nest box -- SO things are
looking "Interesting" - - will we have "duds" (we have had that before!) ..... And
the really difficult bit will start if we get chicks - BUT ......"hope springs eternal" ....
NOW Friday May 20th - I mentioned that we have had camera feeds from nestboxes
around our garden for many years and my dear wife Margaret has kept a diary of
progress every year - I noted this wrongly, as to WHEN eggs actually hatch,
it is usually at around 14 - 15 days AFTER THE WHOLE CLUTCH IS LAID - of course
this makes sense - if one chick hatched days before the others it would always
win in the food wars which follow! -
RESULT!! - we
have a first chick late Saturday afternoon May 21st - now the hard work starts !
....Now Sunday May 22nd and more hatching early this morning - three
hatched now - naked, pink, blind and helpless! - mother eating the egg shells
(great source of calcium!) Father bringing food - NOW Sunday early evening May
22nd, another hatched - mother eats the egg almost before hatching finished! -
now four chicks - Monday May 23rd now five chicks hatched - see photo -
Wednesday May 25th, we seem to now have four chicks - we are unsure if one has
died and been removed by parents ............hard work from now on - as
they grow a little, each chick can eventually eat up 100 caterpillars a day, so to feed a
brood of six or seven, adults need to find as many as 600 caterpillars a day!
Adults also need to remove the chicks poo to keep the nest clean!
................we have learned from many years of cameras
in nest boxes that there is "many a slip between cup and lip!" - we will see - I
will post an update blog here as (and if!) things progress - in the meantime,
enjoy the view ......
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Met Office - Longer Range Forecast, for the entire UK ©Met Office.:
........... Thursday 2 Jun - Saturday 11 Jun
Most places will see dry weather with sunny spells on Thursday, with a risk of
some showers or more organised rain affecting the south. Winds should be light,
but slightly breezier along the south coast. Temperatures rather cool in
northern areas, closer to average elsewhere. In the following days unsettled
weather may continue over the south, with northern and western areas more likely
to be drier. Temperatures will return to near normal in the north and west, and
higher than average elsewhere. Later in the period, the settled weather may
return, bringing drier conditions to western and southwestern areas whereas
cloudier conditions and showers remain in the east and northeast. Temperatures
above average for the southwest, but likely to be rather cool in the northeast.
Sunday 12 Jun - Sunday 26 Jun
Further into June, it's likely that conditions will stay relatively similar
throughout this period. There is high uncertainty in the details of the
forecast, however drier conditions are most likely across western areas, and
rainfall more likely in the east. Temperatures likely to be above average for
most..................................
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Conditions
At:
3:57 on 29/5/22
Dew
Point
3.9°C
Humidity
79%
Barometer
(corrected to sea level)
1023mB
Rate -0.27mB/hr
Wind Figures:
Wind
Speed
1mph
Wind
Direction
ESE
Wind
Chill (How the temperature actually "feels")
7.3
°C
Wind Currently Gusting To
1mph
Peak Wind Gust Today
5mph at 3:05
Rainfall
Figures:
Rainfall Today (Since Midnight)
0.0 mm
Rainfall in the last hour
0.0
mm
Total
Rainfall in May
68.4 mm
Total
Rainfall in April
71.6 mm (2.82 inches)
Total
Rainfall in March
45.0 mm (1.77 inches)
Total
Rainfall in February
304.8 mm (12.00
inches)
Total
Rainfall in January
71.6 mm (2.82
inches)
Total
Rainfall in December
239.6mm (9.43
inches)
Total
Rainfall in November
115.2
mm (4.54
inches)
Total
Rainfall in October
153.4.2
mm (6.00
inches)
Total
Rainfall in September
114.4 mm (4.50
inches)
Total
Rainfall in August
87.4 mm (3.44
inches)
Total
Rainfall in July
98.6 mm (3.88
inches)
Total
Rainfall in June
23.2 mm (0.91
inches)
Total
Rainfall in May
223.6 mm (8.80
inches)
Total
Rainfall in April
17.0 mm (0.67
inches)
Total Rainfall in 2021
1612.2 mm (63.48 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2020
1531.86 mm (60.31 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2019
1424.2 mm (56.07 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2018
1038.8 mm (40.90 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2017
1250.4 mm (49.23 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2016
1055.2 mm (41.54 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2015
1191.20 mm (46.90 inches)
Total Rainfall in 2014
(For
earlier figures see the link top left)
1245.60 mm (49.04 inches)
Sunshine Figures:
Sunshine hours on Friday
(Sunrise to Sunset)
(Updated after Sunset)
8 . 36 Hours
Sun Hours in May
111 . 35
Hours
Sun Hours in April
155 . 87
Hours
Sun Hours in March
165 . 64
Hours
Sun Hours in February
43 . 77
Hours
Sun Hours in January
58 . 22
Hours
Sun Hours in December
20 . 16
Hours
Sun Hours in November
40 . 02
Hours
Sun Hours in October
77 . 67
Hours
Sun Hours in September
122
. 24 Hours
Sun Hours in August
103
. 38
Hours
Sun Hours in July
177 . 15 Hours
Sun Hours in June
183 . 78
Hours
Sun Hours in May
118
. 51 Hours
Sun Hours in April
208. 82
Hours
Sun Hours in 2021
1242.25 Hours
Sun Hours in 2020
1330.53 Hours
Sun Hours in 2019
1316.47 Hours
Sun Hours in 2018
1431.27 Hours
Sun Hours in 2017
1096 . 00 Hours
Sun Hours in 2016
1219 . 59 Hours
Sun Hours in 2015
1239 . 88 Hours
Sun Hours in 2014(For
earlier figures see the link top left)
1226 . 69 Hours
Monthly Average Temperatures:
Average Temp in
April
7
. 68°C
Average Temp in
March
6
. 32°C
Average Temp in
February
4
. 98°C
Average Temp in
January
4
. 08°C
Average Temp in
December
4
.
80°C
Average Temp in
November
6
.
39 °C
Average Temp in
October
10
.
39 °C
Average Temp in
September
14
.
39 °C
Average Temp in
August
14
.
41 °C
Average Temp in
July
16
.
82 °C
Average Temp in
June
14
.
66 °C
Average Temp in
May
8
.
57 °C
Average Temp in
April
5
.
75 °C
Average Temp in
March
5
.
73 °C
Average Temp in
2021
8. 66 °C
Average Temp in
2020
8. 93 °C
Average Temp in
2019
8. 65 °C
Average Temp in
2018
8. 87 °C
Average Temp in
2017
9. 60 °C
Average Temp in
2016
8. 95 °C
Average Temp in
2015
8. 54 °C
Average Temp in
2014
(For earlier figures
see the link top left)
9. 24 °C
Today's
Temperature Extremes:
High Temperature
8.2°C at
0:00
Low Temperature
7.3°C at
3:07
Other
Extremes (Since March 2003)
Highest Shade Temperature
31.9°C
at 15.25 on 25th July 2019
(Previous highest was 30.7°C
at 15.51 on 9th August 2003)
Low Temperature
-11.0°C at 07:35 on 20th December 2010
Highest Daily Rainfall (Midnight
to Midnight)
77
mm (3.03 inches) on 10th August 2004
Highest Monthly Rainfall
308
mm (12.13 inches) in February 2020
(Previous highest was
287mm (11.30 inches in August 2004)
Highest Daily Sunshine Hours
16.
36 Hours on 27th June 2018
(Previous highest was
16.
19 Hours on 16th June 2010)
Highest
Monthly Sunshine Hours
281.
87 Hours in July 2006
Highest Wind Speed Gust
88.08 mph
on 21st January 2012
Astronomical
Data
Sunrise
4:49
Sunset
21:21
Moonrise
4:17
Moonset
20:38
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