The lead up to the arrival of storm Doris was another cloudy and damp day yesterday with the modest winds dropping down in the afternoon. The thermometer rose to a maximum of 11.1C just after 2pm and also fell away before stabilising for most of the evening at 10C.
The wind strength began to pick up after midnight with a maximum gust of 39mph at 05.05 this morning. A cold front, associated with Storm Doris, passed over the area for a brief time between 7.00 and 7.15am this morning with very strong wind gusts and torrential rain, which at its peak was falling at a rate of 30mm/hour.
At this point the barometric pressure halted its downward fall, the wind abruptly veered from the south into the west and the thermometer registered a drop of 2C within a quarter of an hour levelling out at 8.1C when readings were taken at 08.00. Combined with the strong winds this gave a wind chill factor in that it felt more like 5C.
Update: Peak wind gust of 42mph at 10.34 this morning. 10 minute average wind speed of 14mph at 13.00. Record February gust was on 14th February 2014 with a maximum of 55mph.