1.2C maximum with -4C wind chill – that’s a cold day!

With the winds strengthening from the south east yesterday morning the maximum just after 3pm was 1.2C but combined with a significant wind chill if felt like -4C. During the afternoon the wind backed into the east and began to slowly decline as did the temperature with the thermometer dropping to its lowest at 22.45 when a minimum of -2.2C was noted. These changes have been brought about by the gradual decline of barometric pressure over last two days to its lowest this morning at 1009mb, a drop of 30mb from its peak of 1039mb on the 18th.
The thermometer has been slowly rising over the past ten hours and had reached -0.4C at 08.00. This morning is dark and grey with thick cloud sufficiently low to be obscuring the tops of the Marlborough Downs.
Yesterday was another dry day, the tenth consecutive, making seventeen dry days this month with total rainfall at 41.1mm, 44% of the January mean.