Thursday was another day that started calm, dry and dull but rain arrived in the mid-afternoon with the wind increasing producing strong gusts at 17.40 up to 25mph. The daily rainfall amounted to 8.5mm that took the monthly total to 21.3mm against the average for December of 94.0mm. The temperature at 08.00 was 12.8C but dropped away during daylight hours and after the rain band clear around 19.00 the rain stopped, the wind abated and the temperature began to fall away to reach a minimum of 3.4C at 07.51 early Friday. The maximum was 4.7C above average whereas the minimum was just 0.9C above average.
The barometric pressure has been rising overnight producing a short lived ridge of high pressure for the daylight hours of Friday. However, Storm Darragh is closing in. The centre of the depression at midnight was just west of Ireland but over the next twenty-four hours it will move eastwards across central England. Weather warnings have gone out for extreme wind gusts and more heavy rain.
