After more than two months of extreme weather (the rain is still lashing against our window as I write this), we have our fingers crossed that a change could be on the way. I feel that I should be apologising for the number of posts that I have made about the weather, but clearly, this can have a knock-on effect for our grape production later in the year. For example, I think it would be fair to say that there will be no shortage of groundwater in 2014! 

I was relieved to see on several different weather websites that it looks like we might have a dry, sunny period arriving by the middle of this week. They are also predicting a significant step up in temperatures, from the current average of 11-12°C (52-54°F), to a new level of 19-20°C (66-68°F). Now that our pruning is nearing an end, such a temperature change would certainly stimulate some growth activity in our vines.

Being located where we are, adjacent to the Ocean, I am still very aware that forecasts can change rapidly, and so all we can do for now is to wait, and hope that they are correct. I’m not sure that I can stand another weekend of almost non-stop rain – I thought that I had escaped all this when I moved to Spain from the UK!

After more than two months of extreme weather (the rain is still lashing against our window as I write this), we have our fingers crossed that a change could be on the way. I feel that I should be apologising for the number of posts that I have made about the weather, but clearly, this can have a knock-on effect for our grape production later in the year. For example, I think it would be fair to say that there will be no shortage of groundwater in 2014! 

I was relieved to see on several different weather websites that it looks like we might have a dry, sunny period arriving by the middle of this week. They are also predicting a significant step up in temperatures, from the current average of 11-12°C (52-54°F), to a new level of 19-20°C (66-68°F). Now that our pruning is nearing an end, such a temperature change would certainly stimulate some growth activity in our vines.

Being located where we are, adjacent to the Ocean, I am still very aware that forecasts can change rapidly, and so all we can do for now is to wait, and hope that they are correct. I’m not sure that I can stand another weekend of almost non-stop rain – I thought that I had escaped all this when I moved to Spain from the UK!