Wednesday was the last of the wall to wall sunshine days, which gave us 9.97 hours. The temperature was 0.7C down on the record maximum for February on Tuesday with a reading of 17.5C at 13.45, but this was still 10.4C above the 35-yea average.
During the day the barometric pressure, which has been very high for six days, began to drop as the anticyclone edged away.
Initially overnight the temperature fell away to a minimum of 1.4C at 00.35 this morning, Thursday, but the influence of the approaching weather front saw cloud begin to encroach from the west that reversed the falling trend so that by 08.00 Thursday morning the thermometer had recovered to 7.8C under a predominantly cloudy sky (7/8).
Update on Friday at 18.20: the last day of meteorological winter saw the maximum temperature down on recent days with a peak of 10.4C, which was still 3.3C above average. A significant change in wind direction, now from the south west.