The forecast disturbances with torrential rain did occur on Thursday, however, the heavy and continuous rain sidled northwestwards just to the west of our area. There was almost continuous light rain from just before midday until around 13.30 that amounted to 4.8mm that took the monthly total to 30.6mm when my 41-year average for June is 52.9mm. Due to the cloud and rain the maximum temperature was restricted to a peak of 21.8C late in the strong afternoon sunshine at 17.57, being 1.2C above average.
The past night was exceptionally mild thanks to the flow of warm area originating from Iberia. The minimum of 14.4C at 03.54 was 4.2C above my long-term average, which made it the warmest night since 23rd September 2024.
The Heat-health Alert Service has given a warning that just reaches into our area today as a result of the high temperatures and high humidity, that can especially affect older persons.
The new day on Friday began with variable cloud allowing bursts of strong sunshine that had lifted the temperature to 17.3C by 08.00. The weather systems over the UK are a bit messy with various areas of low pressure close to a high pressure further east over the Continent reaching into Scandinavia. The depression today will slowly move up the east cost of the UK into the North Sea, which will result in the wind veering from a principally southwesterly for much of the day to come from the east and possibly northeast to night.
Skomer Island: Skomer os an internationally important seabird island with over 41,500 Puffins, less than a mile off the beautiful Pembrokeshire coast.