Saturday was the warmest day since the 2nd that saw the thermometer rose to 10.0C at 13.07 and 3C above the average. Another 3.7mm of rain was recorded. It was the fifth day this month when the light was so weak that no UV was recorded.
Clearing skies meant a cool night that saw the temperature drop to 2.6C at 05.30.
Sunday dawned with a clear sky and the sun shining as soon as it rose above the horizon.
Friday morning brought 0.8 hours of bright sunshine although the cool, westerly wind tempered the temperature, after another cold night, with a maximum of 4.4C being 2.6C below average.
Rain arrived after midday and wet snow was observed at 14.24 turning thicker at 14.50 and heavy at 15.10. The precipitation total was 5.9mm bringing the monthly total to 21.5mm, being 24% of the 37-year average.
During the evening the thermometer dropped away to a minimum of 0.6C at 19.54 before rising a little to 0.8C at 23.00. Overnight, the advance cloud from the next weather front allowed the temperature to recover to 7.7C at 08.00 on Saturday.
A cloudy and wet day on Thursday saw the thermometer struggled torch 6.7C being 0.3C below the average. Bands of showery rain during daylight hours and overnight produced 6.1mm of precipitation that took the monthly total to 15.6mm when the average is 90.8mm.
Due to thick cloud cover there was little loss of warmth to the atmosphere overnight as the thermometer only lost just over 4C to reach a minimum of 2.1C at 04.52.
Friday initially arrived with a showery clouds passing over the area but being there was more broken cloud to follow.
The temperatures have slowly been falling for a week but from the 1st we have had maxima of 12.9C, 11.3C, 9.7C, 6.7C and 5.4C peaking on Wednesday at 12.54. The wind backed a few degrees on Wednesday to come from the northwest. There were very welcome 3.8 hours of strong sunshine, due to a temporary ridge of high pressure, that began to disappear after 13.35 as variable could arrived.
The thermometer began a slow decent during the afternoon and overnight to reach a minimum of -5.4C at 06.13 on Thursday. This was the coldest night since 1st January 2021 when the thermometer dropped to -6.7C.
At 06.20 on Thursday the sky was still clear but thereafter cloud began to drift from the west, which saw the thermometer begin a slow rise to reach -3.6C at 08.00 and -2.6C at 08.30.
As the depression relocated over the continent the wind on Tuesday came from the north initially that brought much cooler air. In fact the temperature dropped 4C after 08.00 to hover round 2C or 3C for most of the day. A light sleet shower was observed just after 14.30 with the daily precipitation amounting to 1.8mm.
With a clearing sky after midday we enjoyed almost an hour of strong sunshine. The clearing sky brought the expected drop in temperature overnight with a minimum of 0.2C producing a ground frost. The wind backed into the west shortly before 17.00.
Wednesday brought glorious sunshine as soon as the sun rose above the horizon. A ridge of high pressure, current pressure of 1013.8mb, is likely to produce a sunny day, if cool. The temperature by 08.00 had eased upwards a trifle to read 0.8C