The southerly winds on Wednesday brought very mild air with the thermometer rising to its maximum this morning, rather than during daylight hours yesterday, with a reading of 11.8C. This was 4C above the average and the mildest night and morning for almost two weeks.
The rainfall by 08.00 was 4.2mm with more to come this morning from a cold weather front crossing the area.
There were very windy conditions yesterday with a peak gust of 27mph.