Author: Eric Gilbert

Under the brisk motherly breeze on Saturday the maximum by day of 17.7C and minimum overnight of 5.6C were below average with -1.2C and -3.7C respectively. The breeze was the strongest for over a week with a peak gust of 20mph.

Sunday started with thin cloud but weak sunshine soon broke through after 07.15 under the temporary ridge of high pressure. The breeze still comes from the north but is forecast to back into the west during the afternoon.

The rainfall for September stands at 43.6mm but the equivalent loss of rainfall through evaporation is close to the rainfall total with 40mm currently.

The cooler air on Friday due to the wind coming from the north, also a little stronger than previous days, meant a below average maximum (-1.0C) of 17.9C.

It was the fifteenth dry day this month with the UV level of 3.9 in the middle of the Moderate range. Loss of equivalent rainfall due to evaporation is running at well over 1mm a day.

We have had another cool night, also below average (-0.9C) with a low of 8.4C at 07.03 on Saturday.

Saturday arrived with a golden globe rising above the horizon after dawn and shining brightly and consistently.

Thursday gave us another above average day (+1.2C), of which there have been fifteen this month so far, with a peak temperature of 20.1C.

It was another dry day, but during darkness a weather front approached and crossed the area. There were two light showers of rain starting just after 01.30 but a heavier burst just after 05.00 that produced 1.5mm of rainfall. That addition took the monthly total to 43.6mm being 65% of the 38-year average.

Before 04.00 Friday the wind came from the northwest but as the weather front cleared the wind swung into the north or north-northeast.

Friday arrived with total cloud cover, a hang-back of cloud from the weather front easing eastwards. The depression to the Northwest is closer, as a result the barometric pressure has dropped further to read 1016.0mb at 08.00 and has caused the change in wind direction.

Wednesday was the last of the very warm days when the thermometer rose to 21.6C, which was 2.7C above the 38-year average. It was another dry with the UV level at 4.1 being at the top end of Moderate. The breeze came predominantly from the west and was very light with the strongest movement of air of 8mph, couldn’t call it a gust.

The last night was very cool with the thermometer showing a minimum of 5.1C at 06.21 on Thursday.

Thursday after first light saw a roving band of fog drift down from the north followed by thin bands of fog. Just after 07.30 fog formed in the River Og Valley that readily dispersed as the sun got to work. By 08.00 the sun was shining, if weekly.

The high pressure is waning with a drop pf 5mb since yesterday with a reading of 1021.5mb at 08.00. The breeze is forecast to back into the southwest today.

Tuesday was an unusual day in that there was complete calm for many hours with a maximum gust of just 1mph. This calm, dry and bright weather was due to the large area of high pressure covering the UK and in fact continues on Wednesday as the barometric pressure at 08.00 of 1026.9mb is exactly the same as that on Tuesday at the same time.

The thermometer steadily rose to 19.3C on Tuesday being 0.4C above the average due to a change in the wind direction and thus air flow origination. Gone was the northerly flow of cooler from the north of recent days being replaced slowly by a drift of warmer air from the west.

The overnight minimum of 10.6C was 1.3C above average.

Wednesday arrived with cloudy conditions with a occasional brightness.