Weather Data for February

Hi Bulb Buddies!

I hope you have had a lovely February and have enjoyed continuing your hard work collecting your weather data! Some schools have even begun logging their flowering data, which is great to see. 

February was quite a wet month for many areas across the UK with some areas seeing more than the full month's average rainfall within the first 14 days of the month, as reported by the Met Office. There were however regional differences, with Scotland and particularly western Scotland reporting below average rainfall. Temperatures were also variable, with it being colder at the beginning of the month and milder towards the end.

Some areas may have experienced a few days here and there of sunshine, which is reflected in some of your comments, and some images I have taken around St Fagans during the month! I wonder if we will see more sunshine now as we enter into March.

Let’s take a look at your observations for last month, as well as some of your flowering updates!

Weather Observations: 

Henllys Church in Wales School

It has been very rainy this week

Lammack Primary School 

Extremely windy and very cold

Henllys Church in Wales School 

It has not been as cold as it has been

Irvinestown Primary School 

We really loved all the sunny weather we had this week

Professor Plant:

Thank you all for continuing to add these details in your comments. We can definitely see the trend of the weather getting milder as we read through the comment timeline, which means our data matches with other weather reports! 

I agree with Irvinestown Primary School about enjoying the bits of sunshine we have still managed to have!

For all schools who were unable to take weather readings due to half term, don’t worry! – but thank you for commenting this under your ‘No Record’ uploads.

Flowering Updates:

Llanmartin Primary School

Our daffodils in pots are blooming (up against the wall) and those planted in the bed and alongside the pathway in the ground are only just beginning to bloom.

Pinehurst Primary School

Our lovely daffodils opened today. They look so pretty and really brighten up our school.

We have a lovely Crocus. We love the purple colour on it.

Lammack Primary School

One of the mystery bulbs flowered on Wednesday. It is a snowdrop.

Another mystery bulb is almost flowering. It looks to be deep purple.

Leslie Primary School 

We are so Excited. Out first Crocus has flowered

We were all so excited to see the purple.

St Chrysostom's C of E Primary School

Many plants daffodils have flowered in the pots Only two have not flowered yet. Daffodils in the ground planter box have also flowered.

Mountain Lane School

A lovely week in Buckley. It was warm and sunny. We all went to check on the flowers on Friday afternoon. None of the daffodils have flowered yet but several looked ready to pop

 St Francis' Primary - Aghaderg 

The pots in the sunnier location of the school grew taller and have opened first

St Mary's CE Primary - Manchester

One daffodil has bloomed; the rest are slowly growing still.

Professor Plant:

It is great to hear that you have started to see your Daffodils, Crocus and Mystery Bulbs bloom! It is so exciting to see your hard work pay off as you watch your plants grow from small bulbs into vibrant flowers. 

It is lovely to know that you feel that they are brightening up your school area, Pinehurst Primary School.

Keep up the amazing work watching over your flowers, Bulb Buddies.

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This month (March) is now our last month of collecting data for this year, so make sure you are uploading everything you have collected to our website by the 27^th.  Thank you to everyone who has engaged in the project so far.

Professor Plant