A maximum of 18.8C on Thursday made it the warmest day since the 3rd but still 1.8C below my 40-year average. The wind from the west was moderate thus it felt much warmer than recently when in the sun. Clearer skies overnight saw the thermometer once again drop well below average with a low of 5.3C at 03.50 early Friday being 4.9C below the average. Both the maximum and minimum were up 2C on the previous day.
Friday brought a very sunny morning as the ridge of high pressure along the English Chance saw the pressure rise again and bring another mainly dry day. The pressure reading at 08.00 was 1020.0mb, the highest for four days.
The recent drier air, minimal rainfall and hours of sunshine has seen the rate of evaporation from the ground and plant life increase with the equivalent loss of rainfall recently over 3mm a day and at its peak on Sunday with an equivalent loss of 4.84mm.