Tuesday started with te thick cloud from the back end of the weather front that produced another 0.9mm of rainfall. As the day progressed the cloud thinned and gave occasional bright intervals that meant a slightly above average maximum of 21.2C (1.0C) in the early afternoon. Winds were light and variable but settled into a light breeze from the north east late afternoon.
The thick could persisted overnight providing a duvet to minimise heat loss into the atmosphere so that the minimum of 14.4C at 07.57 this morning, Wednesday, was 4.2C above average.
However, the thick cloud on Wednesday initially produced foggy conditions with visibility down to 1,100m brought in on the brisk north easterly breeze making it feel quite cool in the most air.
The barometric pressure has been rising for the past twenty-four hours with a current reading of 1026.1mb, which is the highest this month as an anticyclone edges in from the North Atlantic.
Update on Wednesday at 16.55: late sunshine lifted temperature to a maximum of 18.9C at 15.53, which was 1.3C below average, after a cold morning under a brisk, cool northeasterly wind.