The thermometer by day and night registered the peaks above average with 18.4C (+3.7C) and 9.3C (+2.0C) thanks to the flow of warm, moist air from mid-Atlantic. However, a series of showers passed our way in the afternoon with thunder heard at 14.05 and 14.20. The first was from a thunder cell centred over the Devizes area, seen on the lightning radar, the latter was overhead. A more intense but short rainstorm was observed at 16.30. The daily rainfall amounted to 4.3mm.
Tuesday revealed the hang back of cloud from the weather front over the eastern horizon, that initially obscured the sun but just before 07.50 the sun rose above the cloud and shone brightly. An anticyclone is building in the region of the Bay of Biscay that is edging our way so a few drier, warmer and sunnier days are ahead.