Author: Eric Gilbert

Thursday brought more sunshine and a dry day as the anticyclone built with the UV level back again to Very High. The wind began to veer from west to northwest late afternoon with a peak gust of 22mph.

Temperature extremes were 17.8C (+0.3C) and 11.8C (+5.2C) overnight.

Friday arrived with welcome sunshine after dawn with the wind now settled into the northwest, a cooler direction that west. The air temperature at 08.00 had recovered to 14.4C. The ground temperature at a depth of 5cm read 16.1C at 08.00, the highest at that time since 11th September. The barometric reading at 08.00 was 1025.4mb, the highest since the 8th.

The drizzle on Wednesday came across in waves, but very light, so that by the end of the day it amounted to just 0.7mm. The wind began to veer from the southwest to west just after 14.00 and the sky to clear producing intermittent sunshine.

The maximum temperature was 17.8C (+0.3C) and the minimum of 10.0C (+2.6C) gave a mild night.

Thursday saw the continuation of total cloud cover and a temperature of 13.4C at 08.00.

The barometric pressure began to build during the past twenty-four hours to reach 1021.8mb at 08.00 on Thursday as an anticyclone developed to the west of the Bay of Biscay, thus the change in wind direction to west.

Tuesday was dry although heavy rain showers passed just to the east of this area, thus a dry day. The changeable, showery weather meant squally winds from the west with a peak gust of 22mph.

The thermometer rose to 17.4C in the sunny intervals, through breaks in the cloud, being just below average. Once again the cloud meant a milder night with the minimum of 7.9 being 1.5C above the 38-year average.

Wednesday dawned with total cloud cover from which the first spots of rain were observed at 07.29 in advance of another approaching weather front to shortly pass over the area from the west.

Monday brought sunshine and showers late evening (22.25) and overnight (04.15) that produced 4.4mm of rainfall and brought the monthly total to 50.2mm, still 10mm short of the 38-year average.

The temperature rose to 18.2C (+0.7C) and dropped to 8.8C (+2.4C) overnight.

The equivalent loss of rainfall due to evaporation from ground sources and plant life now totals 60mm with over 4mm lost on Sunday in the many hours of warm sunshine.

Tuesday brought limited sunshine to start the day after a cloudy beginning.

Sunday saw the thermometer soar to 22.9C being 5.4C above the average and the second warmest day this month after 23.1C on the 17th. The UV level of 7.1, although down a little on the highest this month on Saturday, was still in the Very High category.

Total cloud cover overnight meant a mild night with a minimum of 11.2C at 02.34, being 4.8C above the average.

A totally cloudy sky greeted the new day on Monday with the temperature having recovered to 13.1C at 08.00. At that time the barometric pressure read 1004.1mb, which was the lowest pressure this month.