Friday was a pleasant day, after a mainly cloudy morning and increasing variable cloud in the afternoon, that saw the thermometer rise to a peak of 15.8C late in the afternoon at 16.29 being 1.7C above my long-term average. Total cloud cover overnight gave us a relatively mild night that saw the thermometer not drop below 6.3C, logged at 02.53, being 2.6C above average. Not only was it the nineteenth dry day but the breeze was very light, the maximum air movement was just 9mph, couldn’t call it a gust of wind.
Saturday revealed misty conditions after dawn under a thick cover of cloud, visibility around 1,000m. The air stream was very light, the anemometer hardly moving, and appears to continue from the southeast but with little movement of air not a positive comment.
At the moment we are between two high-pressure systems, one to the southwest and the other to the northeast, over Scandinavia. As the day progresses it is forecast for the two anticyclones to merge and the wind direction to be variable, perhaps backing into the northwest late afternoon, however, it will continue very light. There is a large band of cloud running south to north just to the west of our area that will continue to limit any sunshine today but the high pressure will likely keep any rain bands to the west, other than perhaps the odd shower, but unlikely.
The larger area of high pressure from Sunday onwards will see much more sunshine and a rise in temperatures, especially from Monday for much of the coming week.
The images for the coming week were taken on a walk through West Woods, just to the west of Marlborough.