There was more sunshine on Tuesday in the calm conditions with a light northerly breezes, a maximum gust of 10mph. The thermometer rose to a maximum of 21.7C, just up on the Monday peak, and dropped to 8.2C, which was 3.7C below the average, so a cool night.
Wednesday dawned with thick, low cloud masking Savernake Forest. By 07.30 the sun had broken through and by 08.00 had lifted the temperature to 15.8C.
With the wind veering into the west then west-northwest the thermometer did not climb so high on Monday as previous days with a maximum of 21.6C being 1.1C below average.
There were a couple of very light showers during the afternoon, not amounting to much, just 0.6mm. That took the monthly total to 13.7mm being just 23% of the long-term average.
The past night was mild with a low of 13.2C (+1.3C).
Tuesday arrived with total cloud cover. The barometric pressure has begun to rise as the depression moved away with a reading of 1019.8mb at 08.00.
Sunday saw the thermometer rise to a peak of 24.C being 2.0C above he average and the warmest day since the 20th. The UV also rose higher again with a value of 8.3 returning to Very High, the highest since the 13th.
It has been a mild night with a low of 16.0C being 4.1C above the average.
Monday brought sunshine to start the day but just after 08.00 cloud began to build up so that by 08.20 the sun disappeared completely.
The temperature rose again on Saturday with a peak of 23.6C being just above average. It was another dry day and the UV rated as High with a brisk south-westerly breeze gusting to 21mph.
The thermometer only dropped to 16.9C overnight thanks to thick cloud cover and a light southerly breeze. This low was 5C above the 38-year average.
Sunday began with thick cloud cover and mild, the thermometer having risen very lttle from its low to read 17.3C at 08.00
The maximum of 22.8C on Friday was the lowest since the 5th (21.4C) and exactly average for July. The overnight minimum of 11.4C was just below average (-0.5C).
There two very brief, very light showers of rain at 17.35 and just after 20.00 amounting to 0.8mm. That brought the monthly rainfall total to just 13.1mm, which is only 22% of the 38-year average or 46.5mm below.
Saturday brought bright sunken after dawn that lifted the temperature to 16.3C at 08.00.
The equivalent loss of rainfall due to evaporation from ground sources and plant life has dropped in the last two days to about 2mm per day from 4mm and 5mm a week ago. The total loss of equivalent rainfall now stand at 77mm for July against the 13mm of rainfall – quite a deficit.