Friday gave us a dry day although the air stream from the northwest meant a cooler day with the thermometer not rising above 18.6C, which was 4.0C below the average.
The temperature dropped away to a low of 11.8C at 07.10 on Saturday, which was exactly average for August.
Storm Antoni began to influence our weather in the early hours Saturday as the breeze began to pick up shortly after 03.00 with the first rain triggering the automatic rain gauge at 06.16. By 08.00 1.9mm of rain had fallen and the wind risen to a peak gust at that time of 20mph. The barometric pressure read 1007.3mb at 08.00 but will fall further as the centre of the depression traverses our area during the morning. The approach of the depression meant that the wind began to back from northwest at 22.00 Friday night then slowly to south in the early hours of Saturday. The bulk of the rain has, and is, falling to the north of our area.