Wednesday brought us almost 8.4 hours of strong sunshine bringing the total this month to 105 hours. This, with the wind now from the northwest, a slightly warmer direction, meant the temperature rose a little higher to 17.7C, being 1C above the October average and up 1C on the Tuesday peak.
It was another dry day, the eighteenth this month, when the rainfall this month is still only 47% of the 34-year average.
The clearer skies overnight meant that the thermometer fell away steadily to reach a low of 2.4C at 08.00, being 5C below the average for October and 4C down on the Tuesday minimum.
Thursday arrived with radiation fog, limiting visibility to 200m at 08.00, due to the drop in temperature allowing droplets of moisture to form in the atmosphere. There is a little brightness suggesting that we might see some sunshine that would quickly burn off the fog.
Update on Thursday at 20.15: cloud and early fog limited temperature to a maximum of just 10.4C at 13.47. This was 4.3C below average and the coldest day since 6th October