There has been little change from the strong northeasterly wind for several days, Monday was no different. In fact the wind was even stronger gusting to 27mph on two occasions.
The cool and strong wind pegged back the temperature so that the thermometer only reached 17.2C on Monday being just average and the coolest day since the 13th. The last night was also very cool with a minimum of 6.8C also just average for May.
The equivalent loss of rainfall from ground sources and plant life is now 4.3mm for each of the last two days with the total loss for May of 82.6mm compared to the rainfall of 52.7mm.
Tuesday morning revealed a grey and cold morning with the northeasterly wind still gusting strongly, to 24mph. The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm has lost two degrees of warmth recently with a reading of 13.3C at 08.00. The centre of the high pressure has edged closer to Scotland, which has seen the barometric pressure rise to 1030.8mb at 08.00.