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Weather Statistics: rain is likely from 19th, but there will be some drier spells REFUSE TRUCK SCHEDULE Closing date for material for the next edition is
in between for 48 hours. A deep area of low pressure will
give areas south of Bristol to Norwich severe southerly This service has been suspended until further notice Monday 15th November.
Lester Gosbee lester.gosbee@btinternet.com gales. Damaging gusts could cause structural damage and Email: frittendenparishmagazine@gmail.com
widespread flooding in low areas. Coastal flooding is also LOCAL COUNCIL CONTACTS To submit an article please send as a word document.
In August, Frittenden failed to get any temperatures above possible. Winds will reach 75 - 85mph on the Channel Frittenden Parish Council We encourage colour images to illustrate your article,
75 f. Our warmest day was 14th August at 23.7 c/ 74.66 f. Coast, the Isle of Wight and even inland gusts could Chairman Tony Staples 01580 852226 and please supply as high resolution (PDF or 300 DPI).
There was only one day in the UK during August that had a reach 70mph. Temperatures will be very mild, up to 15 Vice Chairman James Tuke 01580 852372 If you wish to text images, or What’s App please do so
on 07768456935.
temperature above 80 f, which was Tyndrum in Stirlingshire c/ 59 f north of Bristol/ Norwich. There will be squally Heather Cullingworth
at 27.2 c/ 80.96 f on 25th. August was the dullest in many winds and heavy showers as well as damaging gusts. The 01580 852340 The Editor wishes it to be known that any opinions
parts of the South East since official records were accepted weathern will calm down after 25th November. It will still Lester Gosbee 01580 852288 expressed in any edition of this magazine are those
by the Met Office in 1929. September outshone August for be unsettled with spells of rain, but also the odd sunny Sarah Murray 07854679348 of the individual contributor and in no way infer any
sunshine and warmth, and less rainfall. The Central England spell. Temperatures will be close to average in all areas. By Rosalind Riley 01580 852317 form of agreement, either by the Editor or by St. Mary’s
Temperature (CET) for September was 15.9 c/ 60.62 f. The 28th we will all be in a cold north westerly airstream, with Parish Clerk Richard Vernon 01580 852537 Church, of the details given or sentiments implied.
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average is 13.71 c/ 56.78 f, so 2.2 c/ 3.48 f above average. the most showers on windward coasts and hills exposed
August’s CET was 15.8 c/ 60.44 f. Since 1659, when monthly to the north westerly wind. It will become progressively QUIZ (PAGE 34) ANSWERS
temperature averages began, September’s CET has beaten colder with night frosts and wintery showers. There could www.frittenden.org.uk
August’s CET 3 times, in 1729, 1865 and 2021. September be a dusting of snow in places like Salisbury Plain in There are 16 houses between number 12 and 29. Since half
of the houses have to be on either side of the road, there
temperatures that have been higher than this year was 2006, Wiltshire. The most snow will be at the Molven Hills in the must be 8 houses on either side. This means that the last
at 16.8 c, 1729 at 16.6 c, 1865 and 1949 at 16.3 c, 1795 and Cotswolds, maybe having enough snow to make snowballs, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council home on one side is number 20, and there must be 20 more
1600 at 15.9 c. Frittenden had 30.4mm/ 1.22 inches of rain as well as other western counties where ground is above Town Hall 01892 526121 homes going back up the street, giving a total of 40 houses.
in September. The wettest day in Frittenden was 28th with 800 ft. Leaf Hill in Surrey is 294 metres/ 964 feet high, Cranbrook – Weald Information Centre
9.4mm/ 0.37 inches. so snow will probably lay there too.. There could even be 01580 715686
the odd wintery shower in Kent. MP Kwasi Kwarteng, the WORD SEARCH (PAGE 16)
FORECAST FOR NOVEMBER 2021: November will start Business Secretary is pinning his hopes on a mild winter Member for Frittenden & Sissinghurst
with low pressure. It will be wet and windy in all areas that to help to keep the costs of heating our homes down. As Andy Fairweather 07976 290185
I forecast for, but it will be the wettest and windiest in the energy prices rise, the Met Office say that we are in for a andrew.fairweather@tunbridgewells.gov.uk
north west. Dorset and Gloucestershire will get local flash mild, wet winter. Let’s hope that they are right....but not
floods on low ground. The strong westerly gales will make too wet.
it feel colder than it is, at 10 - 12 c/ 50 - 54 f. That is a little Kent County Council 01622 671411

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below average. By 4th, high pressure will be in charge and November’s highest day temperature will be: 16 c/ 61 f
winds will turn southerly. Clear skies are a recipe for fog. in the second week of the month. November’s lowest day Member for Cranbrook
This will be widespread, and will affect all of our motorways temperature will be: 1 - 3 c/ 34 - 37 f, at the end of the Sean Holden 01580 714880
at times. The thickest fog will be in the South East, East month over higher ground. Frittenden may not get a day sean.holden@kent.gov.uk
Anglia and the Midlands, so it will be a foggy fireworks with temperatures below 40 f. November’s coldest night
night. It will be mild, though, with temperatures of 8 - 10 will be -3 c/ 37 f in frost hollows. November’s average
c/ 46 - 50 f at night. Where fog thins and there are some rainfall in England is 88.2 c/3.46 inches , 77.7mm/ 3.059 Policing
sunny spells, temperatures could rise to 16 c/ 61 f. This inches in Kent, and it is the second wettest month of the Non-urgent crime reports 101
spell of weather could last for a week, at leat until 11th year. Western counties could get double the average at 7 Neighbourhood Watch Liaison
November, and will be replaced by a spell of rain, locally inches/ 100mm. Elsewhere, 4 inches. November sunshine Sean Croucher 01580 852415
heavy. A cold, northerly blast will give showers, even wintery over England averages around 65 hours, 73 hours in Kent. Community Warden
showers on ground above 250 metres/ 800 feet. This just Most places will get 5% below average sunshine. Having Adam Osborn 07813 695741
about rules Kent out, but in frost hollows like Benson in said that, he south coast could get 90 hours of sunshine
Oxfordshire, Rickmansworth and parts of the Weald, there in November. The Central England Temperature in
could be quite a sharp frost of -3 c/ 27 f. There will be some November averages 6.83 c/ 44.29 f , 7.60 c/45.68 f in Kent.
lovely sunny mornings, but everywhere will be on the cold The warmest November on record was in 1994 at 10.3 c/ NEXT EDITION
side. Only Hastings and Brighton may reach double figure 50.54 f, the October average. Nothing has been close to
temperatures, 10 c/ 50 f. Elsewhere, temperatures will be that since. This year the CET for November will be 8.9 c/
closer to 4 - 6 c/ 39 - 43 f. Averages should be around 12 c/ 48.02 f, the warmest since 2015, and the second warmest Canyon Clay is typically associated with November, autumn energy is not complete
54 f in the south, 10 c/ 50 f in Lincolnshire. More wind and since 1994. without some earthly fall tones.

Front cover image: Drone photo by James Lee who is in his final year at Cranbrook School and is aiming to study Aerospace
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