Abstract
Long term weather station monitoring of the climate at Nettlecombe Court provided a very detailed daily record of temperatures, rainfall and other weather phenomena extending back to 1968. Observations over the years indicated that Nettlecombe Court is both a sun-trap as well as a frost pocket, with unusual extremes of temperature recorded. The data series for Nettlecombe Court shows a 1°C rise in mean annual temperature during the past half-century, with a distinct period of acceleration in the rate of increase in the last two decades of the 20th century.