Author: Eric Gilbert

The northerly breeze on Tuesday, gusting to 18mph, meant a cooler day and night. With sunshine restricted to the morning and a cloudy afternoon the thermometer only reached 14.5C, but that was still 0.4C above the average for April.

There were a couple of very light showers in the mid and late afternoon that only amounted to 0.4mm. That means that so far in April we have only received 29% of the long-term average rainfall.

The temperature dipped to 6.0C at 05.17 on Wednesday that arrived with very misty conditions. The light brightened a little after 08.15 but no sunshine due to thick cloud that had drifted in from the North Sea on the breeze that had veered further into the northeast and later will come from the east.

The breeze on Monday arrived from the west and later west-northwest, a cooler direction than of late. Consequently, the thermometer only reached 16.4C mid-afternoon, the coolest day for a week but still 2.3C above the average.

It was another dry day, the tenth this month. The rainfall still stands at 16.2mm when the average is 57.7mm. The loss of equivalent rainfall due to evaporation from ground sources and plant life is 2 to 3mm daily and this month totals 35mm.

The Uv level at 5.1 rose to ‘High’ again.

The past night was very cool with a minimum of 3.3C at 04.57 on Tuesday.

Tuesday brought variable weak sunshine through variable thin high cloud to start the day.

Although we enjoyed many hours of sunshine on Sunday it was a cool day with a maximum of 18.9C. The peak was 3C down on recent days but still 4.8C above the average.

The wind picked up strength and still from the southeast. It was a dry day but due to high, thin cloud the UV level dropped back to ‘Moderate’.

A minimum of 5.4C was 1.7C above average but felt chilly first thing on Monday as thin high cloud obscured any strong early morning sunshine.

The barometric pressure has continued to drop as the anticyclone eases away and low pressure systems approach from the Atlantic.

The plentiful sunshine on Saturday pushed the thermometer to 22.1C being 8C above average and the warmest day since 24th September. The UV level of 5.1 is rated as ‘High’.

The dry, warm weather is increasing the evaporation from ground sources and plant life, the equivalent rainfall of over 3mm was lost on Friday and almost 3mm on Saturday. In total the loss this month is now 29mm when rainfall for Aril stands at 16.2mm.

Sunday brought more sunshine after a hazy start. The temperature recovered to 8.4C at 08.00 after a low of 6.2C, which was 2.5C above the average.

The barometric pressure has been falling steadily for the past twenty-four hours so a change in the weather pattern is imminent, but still relatively high today at 1024.2mb at 08.00.

The light southerly air stream boosted the temperature to 21.4C at 14.51 making it the warmest day since 24th September and 7.3C above the average.

The overnight minimum of 4.9C was also above average (+1.2C) occurring at 05.35 on Saturday.

Saturday brought brief broghness after dawn with variance cloud that had lifted the temperature at 08.00 to 8.9C.

The barometric pressure of 1030.1mb is currently at its highest this month with the centre of the anticyclone over Denmark, which will see the breeze back further into the southeast.