Icy oval

COLD winter this year so far?

You’ve got to believe it.

The early morning on April 15 saw the temperature drop below 5C for the first time.

From then until the end of July a weather station close to the Showgrounds oval has registered 14 days where the temperature has dropped below freezing, with the lowest being -3C on July 2 and the same again on July 16.

The odd morning of frost is to be expected but I’m sure that this long run of cold weather is very unusual.

It will be interesting to see, once spring starts and the warmer weather arrives, what devastation has been wreaked in the garden; what the frost has killed off and what has survived.

Allan Henshaw
Toodyay