Atmosphere saturated at 99% humidity

Another day has passed with rain and mist from low cloud covering the high ground. Occasional showers in the past twenty-four hours amounted to 2.8mm, bringing the total for December to 13.4mm when the mean is 91.5mm. At dawn the humidity reading was 99%, the second day this month with such a high reading. The thermometer reached a maximum of 11.1C yesterday, some 3.5C above the mean and although falling late afternoon and evening it recovered after midnight to 9.3C at 08.00. The barometric pressure is now at its lowest since 22nd November, at 1018.4mb, due to the encroaching low pressure systems that seem to have been a regular feature of our weather in the past week.