The almost 8 hours of sunshine on Sunday, as a result of much less cloud cover, lifted the temperature to a maximum of 19.4C. the third warmest day this month but still 0.8C below the 35-year average. The little rain that fell was in the earlier part of the morning.
The past night has been the second warmest this month with the thermometer not falling below 12.9C, which was 2.8C above the average and only the third above average night this month.
Monday was initially cloudy but the cloud thinned and the sun broke through just before 08.00 with the temperature at that time eased upwards to read 15.5C.