Sunday 7th June
Saturday was a day best forgotten as it rained almost all day, there was a brief gap mid-morning, all due to a very wide weather front that deposited 7.2mm of rain, mostly of a light nature, intermingled with light drizzle, driven on by a brisk breeze. Not surprisingly, it was a very cool day that saw the thermometer struggle to reach a maximum of 15.2C at 10.46, during the bright period, being a significant 5.5C below average. The thick cloud overnight meant a minimum of 10.6C at 02.15, was just above average at +0.4C.

Sunday began once more with total cloud cover with little prospect of any sunshine, perhaps brief bright periods of brightness if lucky. The forecast pressure charts indicate that another weather front, with its associated rain, will arrive later this afternoon or early evening due to yet another low pressure system closing in on the UK. A temporary mini-ridge of high pressure will fend off the weather fronts until later in the day with a barometric pressure reading of 1019.6mb at 08.00, the highest this month, but will collapse southward as the next depression closes in on the UK.

The week ahead looks to continue the changeable, unsettled conditions as the jet stream is forecast to push further depressions across the Atlantic heading for the UK. However, there is growing confidence in the forecast track of the jet stream, come next weekend, that its track will begin to loop to the north of the UK allowing higher pressure and warmer air to arrive from a more southerly direction.

The pictures this week will continue from Abbotsbury Swannery, a home to a colony of over 600 Mute Swans, located on the dramatic Dorset Coast.