Author: Eric Gilbert

Monday was dry although cooler thanks to the easterly drift of wind that limited the temperature rise to 14.2C (-0.5C). Cloud overnight meant a mild night with a low of 9.1C (+1.8C) with rain falling between 02.30 and 04.15 early Tuesday amounting to 2.8mm.

Although areas of the country have received excessive amounts of rainfall the monthly total for Marlborough stands at 80.5mm being 10mm below the average. The recent extreme rainfall was just to the north of Marlborough.

Tuesday first light revealed a cloudy sky although beginning to lift and thin by 08.00 when the temperature read 9.6C. The barometric pressure remains low, currently 1002.0mb, due to the presence of four depression surrounding the UK.

Sunday was dry and sunny during the morning that lifted the temperature to 15.7C (+1.0C) but clouded over in the afternoon. Clearing skies initially overnight meant a cold night that saw the thermometer drop to 4.8C in the early hours before recovering to 7.6C at 08.00 Monday.

Monday dawned dull and grey with low cloud once again masking the Marlborough Downs and Savernake Forest limiting visibility to 600m . The light breeze is currently coming from of the east but likely to veer a few degrees into the southeast as the day progresses.

Saturday was dry but it was a predominantly cloudy day limiting any warmth producing a maximum of just 13.4C, which was 1.3C below the average due to the light northerly air movement.

The sky cleared overnight allowing the thermometer to drop to 4.9C at 04.50, which was 2.9C below the average.

Sunday began cloudy with radiation fog in the valleys but by 08.00 the sun had begun to break through and the fog to lift. By that time the temperature had risen to 6.0C and the barometric pressure had risen a significant 23mb since the deep depression passed our way on Saturday to read 1003.7mb at 08.00. The light air movement today will come from a warmer quarter, namely a southwesterly.

Friday was a dry day after 08.10 with the southwesterly breeze producing a mild day as the thermometer climbed to 16.9C being 2.2C above the 39-year average. Likewise the past night was mild being 3.6C above average with a low of 10.9C.

Saturday slowly dawned under very low, thick cloud that draped the Marlborough Downs and Savernake Forest. Another low pressure system is overhead with a reading of 980.7mb at 08.00, which will see the air movement swing from east to north west then southwest as it trundles across the UK.

Yet more rain fell on Thursday and overnight producing the wettest day since 20th September with 20.8mm, which took the monthly total to 77.5mm when the long-term average is 90.2mm. Thankfully Storm Babet let us off lightly being much further to the north, just hours of steady rain.

The southerly air flow meant a mild day that saw the thermometer climb to 16.8C, which was 2.1C above the average. The past night has also been mild with the thermometer not sinking below 12.2C, which was 4.9C above the average.

The centre of the next depression that has brought overnight rain, is over south Wales. The barometric pressure at 08.00 on Friday read 976.0mb making it the lowest pressure since 20th January 2021.