Although Thursday started very mild the arctic air mass arrived mid-morning with the thermometer starting to tumble.
The maximum of 12.4C, almost 5C above the December average, was reached at 10.50 before it began to fall with a minimum of 1.1C just before dawn.
The backend of the cold weather front produced another 2.8mm of rainfall in the morning before the clearance arrived midday. The clearance of cloud in the afternoon allowed 1.38 hours of sunshine.
It was a breezy day with gusts to 25mph as the wind veered from the south to the west north west.