Author: Eric Gilbert

Thanks to the change in wind direction as the morning progressed, from the south, the thermometer eventually rose above average (+0.7C) with a maximum of 11.2C. It was the warmest day since 22nd February.

The southerly air flow and cloud overnight meant a mild night with the thermometer not sinking below 7.4C at 03.16 on Wednesday.

Wednesday brought broken cloud and brief sunny intervals in the early morning. The southerly breeze continues and likely to edge nearer to east-southeast as the day progresses due to the depression in the Eastern Atlantic forecast to move eastwards to be off the Brittany coast after midday.

Although the maximum of 7.9C on Monday was higher than the two previous days it was still 2.6C below the average due to the brisk wind from the east. Th maximum gust of wind was 23mph and during the day produced a wind chill again so that it felt at least 1C cooler outside than the thermometer indicated.

It was a dry day with the UV level rising to a peak of 2.5, still classed as ‘Low” but the highest since 15th October.

A minimum of -1.0C was recorded at 06.20 on Monday morning that produced an air frost again but by 08.00 the thermometer had risen to 1.4C due to sunshine shortly after the sun had risen above the horizon.

The barometric pressure has continued to fall loosing another 14mb during the past twenty-four hours so a change in the weather pattern is indicated. The pressure at 08.00 was 10128mb, some 18mb below the peak on Sunday.

The temperature of the soil at a depth of 5cm has been falling due to the frosty nights with a reading of 0.9C at 08.00, the lowest since 22nd January after the mild February.

The thermometer struggled to reach a maximum of 6.7C on Sunday being 3.8C below the 38-year average and made it the coldest day since 25th of January. The brisk wind from the northeast, gusting at its peak to 26mph, produced a wind chill for the second day that meant outside it felt at least 2C cooler than that indicated on a thermometer.

The past night has been cool with the thermometer dropping to 0.3C at 03.49 on Monday.

Monday at first brought brief breaks in the cloud that allowed very brief spells of brightness but not strong sunshine.

The barometric pressure is beginning to drop as the centre of the anticyclone, currently over Northern England, migrates to Denmark that will mean the wind veers a little further to come from the east and east-southeast.

The thermometer only rose to 7.0C on Saturday at 15.19 being 3.5C below average and the coldest day since 25th January. The wind from the north increased in strength during the morning, with a peak gust of 29mph, so that at 13.00 whilst the thermometer read 6.3C it felt more like 3C outside.

There were a couple of spots of rain in the wind in the afternoon and a little heavier early morning on Sunday amounting to 0.8mm.

The barometric pressure has risen to 1029.9mb by 08.00 on Sunday with the anticyclone easing from Northern Ireland to around the Edinburgh area at noon today so the wind currently coming from the northeast will veer into the east-northeast after midday.

Once again a new day was greeted with total cloud cover as the persistent weather front that plagued the area on the 3rd and 4th migrated back eastwards to our area.

A little sunshine broke through on Friday after 13.00 but the brisk breeze from the Northwest, gusting to 19mph, pegged back the temperature. The maximum by day was 9.6C being 0.9C below average and a low overnight of 2.3C at 00.42 on Saturday was almost exactly average.

It was a dry day with the UV level of 1.8 still in the ‘Low’ category thanks to a lack of sunshine.

Saturday revealed itself to be a repeat of Friday with total cloud cover as the weather front that took two days to slowly move eastwards has edged back westwards to cover our area. The wind has backed a few degrees and now coming from the north, so another cool day in prospect.