Windrush Weather

Author: Eric Gilbert

  • Very little rain but temperatures by night & day cool

    The heavy showers on Sunday again averted dropping useful quantities over Marlborough, just two light showers amounting to 1.0mm.

    The temperature recovered in the lighter winds from the north west to peak at 18.8C but sill 2.3C below average.

    It was not quite such a cool night but the minimum of 5.8C was still significantly 4.2C below average.

    Monday saw broken cloud and hazy sunshine that lifted the temperature to 11.7C at 08.00 but the wind has veered back not the north east, a cooler direction.

  • Wettest day for a month – but very little

    Throughout Saturday there were occasional light rain flecks in the air but not measurable. However, just before 17.00 a longer, light shower, amounting to 1.3mm, arrived making it the wettest day since 3rd May when 1.9mm was logged.

    It was a cold day with the wind gusting to 22mph from the west that limited the warmth to around 12C for much of the day but started to ease upwards late afternoon to reach a maximum of 14.4C at 18.15. This coincided with the wind dropping out as the barometric pressure began to rise due to the deep depression in the southern North Sea easing away.

    It was another very cool night with the thermometer falling steadily away to a minimum of 5.1C at 05.33, being 5C below average for June, interestingly exactly as on the previous night.

    Sunday arrived with hazy sunshine but little wind and feeling much warmer than the two previous days, allowing the thermometer to rise to 10.3C at 08.00.

  • Very cool night!

    The north westerly wind was very gusty on Friday with a maximum of 25mph. The cool Arctic air and strong wind depressed the temperature, although a little higher than the Thursday peak, with 16.9C being 3.2C below average. These conditions brought by the intense depression meandering down the North Sea.

    It was another dry day with the UV for much of the day rated ‘High’ but briefly before and after 13.00 rose to ‘Very High’.

    The thermometer sank to 5.1C at 04.24 early Saturday morning as the wind dropped out. This was 5C below the 36-year average and the coldest night since 15th May. Shortly after the time the wind slowly began to rise again registering a peak gust of 20mph just before 08.00 and having backed furthering, now from the west.

    Saturday saw strong sunshine after dawn but by 07.30 the first evidence of clouds began to drift across the sky heralding the advancing weather front. By 08.00 the thermometer had recovered a little to read 9.6C, making it the coldest start to the day at this time since 16th May.

  • Low pressure now influences our weather

    Thursday saw the low pressure over the Northern North Sea slowly sink southwards producing a brisk northerly wind. The cooler air mass meant a significantly below average maximum of 14.4C (-5.6C). This was the coolest day since 14th May. It was a dry day with 3.4 hours of sunshine with the UV level just rising into the High category.

    A cool night followed with the thermometer sinking to 9.9C, just below average.

    Friday arrived with thick cloud blotting out any sunshine but just before 08.00 very brief bright intervals were observed.

    With the depression moving closer to this area the barometric pressure has dropped to 996.3mb, its lowest reading since 1st May.

  • Dramatic change in weather

    The cold front staggered down across the country on Wednesday, fragmenting as it did so, bringing colder air behind it, hence the name, so that the thermometer struggled to get to 18.1C This was 2C below the 36-year average and th coolest day since 23rd May. The north easterly wind also picked up with a very strong gust peaking at 22.38 of 24mph. The sunshine was limited to exactly 3 hours after being in double figures for most of May

    During the day there were occasional very brief drizzly occurrences that were not measurable. Just after midnight, 00.45, a light shower was recorded that amounted to 0.2mm, the first measurable rainfall since 23rd May.

    Thursday was initially bright but just before 07.30 thick cloud filled the sky and obliterated any possible sunshine. Overnight the wind backed into the north and the cold air mass meant a cool night with a minimum of 8.6C at 05.59.