The north then northwest airstream on Tuesday meant a cold day being 4C to 5C down on previous days with a maximum of just 6.9C. That low temperature was 1.0C below the 39-year average and combined with the strong wind gusting to 27mph at times produced a wind chill that meant outside if felt more like 4C than 7C.
During the evening the temperature slowly began to fall away, quicker after midnight, to reach a minimum of 0.6C at 02.31. However, another weather front then began to cross our area bringing thick cloud and light rain or drizzle, amounting to just 0.4mm, that reversed the temperature drop so that by 08.00 the thermometer read 3.4C.
Thursday didn’t really dawn as it was so dark and dull under the very low, thick cloud producing light drizzle. The barometric pressure has been rising with an increase of 20mb in the past twenty-four hours so eventually today will tend to become drier and brighter. This is due to an anticyclone building in the eastern Atlantic throwing a ridge of high pressure over the UK. The other significant feature is that the wind in the early hours backed from northwest to southwest, later will veer into the west, this wind direction means moist, milder air so the temperature should slowly recover during the day.