After a very cold start on Thursday the thermometer rose from the low of -2.7C at 08.00 and very slowly rose to hover around 6C after midday, dropping to 3.9C early evening and rising again in the early hours. There were many hours of sunshine in the morning but thin cloud began to drift across after 13.00. It was another dry day.
Friday began bright with more sunshine as the short-lived high pressure is still influencing our weather and will give us another dry day with the sunshine again becoming limited in the afternoon. The change shortly after midday will be due to a warm front and associated cloud crossing southern England that is likely to see the thermometer rise a degree or two as the afternoon progresses. The wind will be from the south-southeast for much of the day and moderate in strength.
The centre of the anticyclone is heading away towards Germany and being replaced by low pressure systems trying to edge in from the Atlantic.
