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April 2012 Douro Insider
After months of forecasts promising rain and delivering sunshine, April finally brought some very welcome rain to the Douro Valley. Coupled as it was with periods of overcast and generally cooler than average temperatures throughout the month, the vines were … Continue reading
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March 2012 Douro Insider
Hopes were raised on the first day of the month that this year’s hideous climatic patterns might finally be changing for the better (i.e. worse) when we enjoyed the very lightest speckling of drizzle during the afternoon, but it was … Continue reading
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February 2012 Douro Insider
What actually happened in February is very easy to describe. Why it occurred, and what the consequences will be, is very much more complicated. So what did happen then? Basically, nothing. There was no wind. There were no clouds. There … Continue reading
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January 2012 Douro Insider
With the exception of a moderately moist first day of the month, which very few people can remember anyway so it doesn’t really count, the New Year got off to an extremely dry start. December’s fog still persisted in the … Continue reading
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December 2011 Douro Insider
The first two or three days of the month suggested that it was going to be basically cold, grey and wet, rather predictably. But the rain immediately dried up and on balance December turned out just to be cold and … Continue reading
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November 2011 Douro Insider
After yet another dry month in October (and apparently also the warmest October since 1931 at a national level), it was pleasing to see that the roads in the Douro were running like rivers on the 2nd of November. The … Continue reading
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September and October 2011 Douro Insider
After a bit of a non-summer came an extraordinary autumn, bringing weather that the gods of grapes wouldn’t have dared to dream about. With just enough rain falling on the first of the month to refresh the vines and put … Continue reading
August 2011 Douro Insider
Unlike some months so far this year, August was by no means atypical; on the contrary, both the temperatures and the total precipitation were very close to average. This makes it much harder to explain the extraordinary maturation of the … Continue reading
July 2011 Douro Insider
Although the end of June was destructively hot, almost as soon as the new month got underway there was a complete reversal of the broad-scale meteorological picture which came to dominate the weather in Portugal during most of July. Very … Continue reading
June 2011 Douro Insider
June turned out to be rather a strange month, surprising both in its extreme temperatures over one devastating weekend, and in its unseasonable coolness during the rest of the month. After an abnormally hot May (which registered a mean temperature … Continue reading
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