WILDLIFE
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22
December 2009
In
just above freezing (> 1.0 °C)
temperatures, most of the snow in Shoreham town
had melted by midday.
Shoreham
Weather 2009
19
December 2009
The
air temperature fell to a low of minus 4.3
°C at 9:00
am in the morning. No extra snow fell overnight.
The temperature dropped even further to minus
5.9 °C after dusk at 6:00
pm.
Lowest
Temperature this Millennium
18
December 2009
There
was 75 mm depth
of snow on the urban pavements (measured outside of my front door). The
air temperature fell below freezing, minus
0.6 °C, at 11.00
am.
As
dusk fell, the temperature dropped to a low of minus
2.2 °C at 6:00
pm.
17
December 2009
Just
before midnight, several inches of snow fell in blizzard
conditions
and laid
despite the air temperature being 0.5 °C.
The wind was recorded from the north and their were icy gusts from this
direction, but the snow flakes appeared to be swirling from all over the
place.
Shoreham
Weather 2009
Shoreham
Weather (Met Office)
11
December 2009
A clump
of Parasol Mushrooms appeared on the south-eastern edge of Southwick
Green.
Adur
Fungi 2009
6 December
2009
As
two Buzzards
soared in the blue sky high over Mill Hill,
a small (four strong) South Downs
JC volunteer work force began to chop down the invasive Privet
at the southern end of the lower slopes. Frequent
Bearded
Milkcaps, Lactarius
pubescens, were again seen under the
small Silver Birch
trees on the verges of Mill Hill Road in north Shoreham.
Adur
Fungi 2009
1 December
2009
After
two weeks of rain every day, everywhere was
muddy and with good conditions for the appearance of the flowering heads
of fungi.
Two notable species were recorded: a few Bearded
Milkcap, Lactarius
pubescens, under a small Silver
Birch tree on the verges of Mill Hill
Road, north Shoreham, and frequent Big
Blue Pinkgill, Entoloma
bloxamii, on the lower slopes of Mill
Hill.
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Adur
Fungi 2009
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