The rain started just before 11.30 on Friday. I went to bed with it raining and I have got up today and it is still raining. The daily total for the past twenty-four hours was 15.2mm, which brings the total for March to 130.2mm, a record for this station since it started recording in 1984, being 227% of the 34-year March average or 73mm above the past record set in March 2001.
The depression that sat over the UK for all of Saturday, day and night, just slowly revolved anticlockwise, and only gradually moved just a little north, which in the late afternoon meant that the wind backed from the Northeast into the Northwest.
With no sun on Friday, thick cloud and a wind from the Northeast for much of the daylight hours it was not surprising to find that it was a cold day with the thermometer not getting above 6.6C, almost 4C below the March average and that does not take into account the wind chill, which meant for much of the day it felt more like 4C.
Saturday has dawned with thick, low cloud giving misty conditions and light rain.
No surprises to find that the sunshine in March so far has been approximately half of that recorded in February and only one hour more than that recorded in January.
Saturday update at 14.15: NOT holiday weather as thermometer struggled to reach maximum of 6.3C at 14.00, 4.2C below average. Now fallen away to 5.9C with wind chill making it feel like 3C as northwesterly wind has been increasing, gusting to 20mph. Sporadic light rain in morning now ceasing.
Saturday update at 16.30: although the rain has stopped for the past few hours it is so dark the solar panels have temporarily shut down.