The several hours of sunshine on Wednesday lifted the temperature a little higher than the two previous days with a maximum of 4.6C but this was still 2.4C below the average. However, the modest warmth in the sun during the 10.55 hours when the temperature was above freezing, 09.51 – 20.26, melted the light snow cover and the frost in direct line of the sun. The slight shift in the wind direction, from north to north-northwest and northwest contributed to the limited rise in temperature.
After 20.26 the thermometer very slowly began to fall away reaching -1.0C at 22.45 but much further in the early hours with a minimum of -3.1C at 08.00 on Thursday.
Thursday arrived with thin, high cloud to the east masking any sunshine. The barometric pressure has seen a rise of 11mb in the past twenty-four hours with a reading of 1007.7mb at 0800 as the depression moved away.
The intense cold has reached further into the ground as the soil thermometer at a depth of 5cm has dropped to -1.3C from -0.7C yesterday at 08.00.