Saturday 7th February
There were three periods of rain during the past twenty-four hours. It became drier just after 10.00 until mid-afternoon on Friday, when it returned for almost four hours then began again just before 06.00 early Saturday. This added another 17.2mm to the monthly total now standing at 54.4mm. There was not a great variation between the maximum of 10.5C at 13.03, during the brighter period, and the minimum of 6.7C at 23.18, the extremes being 2.2C and 4.8C above average respectively. The significant weather feature was the minimal air movement during daylight hours, a movement of just 7mph at the highest. However, the breeze picked up a little during the early hours with a peak gust of 15mph at 03.37.

The new day on Saturday began with thick cloud producing more rain under gloomy conditions as another arc of cloud, associated with the depression, crossed our area. The wind has now veered a little to come from the south today and over the weekend. This will bring slightly warmer air, drafted up from around the Bay of Biscay before travelling around the southern edge of one, then two areas of low pressure on Sunday.

The weather pattern has been in a rut since the middle of January and will continue to do so well into next week. However, there are signs that the resident high pressure to the northeast will begin to relocate further east by mid-week that would allow the areas of low-pressure to also migrate further east over the Continent. However, this will not significantly change our weather as we will still be under variable cloud with limited sunshine, although mild for early February.