Author: Eric Gilbert

Tuesday saw the thermometer struggle to reach a maximum of 5.1 at 11.21, which was 5C below the 34-year average and the coldest day since March 1st when the thermometer did not get above -2.0C. This was the seventh day of falling maxima.

There were light showers during daylight hours with heavy precipitation overnight amounting to 2.8mm. This bright the November rainfall total to 49.4mm being just 54% of the November average when we have had six successive months of below average monthly rainfall.

Wednesday early morning saw the thermometer fall away to a minim of 0.9C being 2.7C below average.

Snow (wet) began to fall at 08.16 on Wednesday morning and continued to fall heavily for almost an hour during which time the thermometer dropped further to 0.8C at 09.15. This left a light covering on the grass and soil surfaces. Currently the wind has dropped out and there is no wind chill factor. Wind now veered from harsh northeasterly to a more friendly southeasterly.

Update on Wednesday at 15.30: maximum temperature down for eighth consecutive day with a peak of only 4.9C at 12.50 being 5.2C below average.

The maximum temperature has dropped for six consecutive days with a peak of 7.3C on Monday, which was 2.7C below the 34-year average. However, for most of the day the windchill meant it felt 3C lower than that shown on the thermometer. The successive maxima for the last six days are: 14.2C, 14.1C, 11.5C, 10.1C, 9.8C, 7.3C.

There were a couple of very light showers during the daytime that just damped the ground but not sufficient to measure, thus logged as a ‘trace’.

The northeasterly winds on Monday gusted frequently over 20mph with a peak gust of 30mph at 08.26. Overnight the strength dropped a little but has been increasing again over the last few hours.

Tuesday has seen the continuation of strong northeasterlies and continuous cloud cover with a minimum of 3.5C at 00.11. At 08.00 the thermometer read 4.2C but wind chill meant that this felt more like 0.5C.

Update on Tuesday at 13.50: maximum temperature of 5.1C reached at 11.21 before thicker cloud and light rain blown across on the strong northeaterlies, gusting to 26mph. Current temperature of 4.3C with wind chill making it feel more like 1C.

Although we had 6.65 hours of glorious sunshine on Sunday the wind, having backed now into the north east, brought a much cooler air mass from Scandinavia. This resulted in a maximum of 9.8C being 0.3C below average, only the second below average this month.

Due to the brisk and drier air there was a wind chill on Sunday that meant it felt a couple of degree colder than was registering on the thermometer.

Overnight cloud spilled in from the North Sea just after midnight and halted the falling temperature that coincided with the wind speed increasing.

Monday morning saw the northeasterly gusting to 24mph and the thermometer reading 6.2C but the stronger wind meant that the windchill made it feel more like 3C.

The air this morning is much drier than the warm, moist air of recent days with humidity reading 80% at 08.00 whereas last week at this time it was in the high 90s. The last time we had such dry air in the morning was 5th August, also with 80% humidity.

Update on Monday at 13.50: maximum temperature of just 7.3C reached this morning at 10.33. Wind gusting to 30mph is producing a wind chill in that it feels like 5C.

The maxima over the past four days has seen the result of the slow change from southerly winds to a colder easterly with 14.2C, 14.1C, 11.5C and 10.1C on Saturday, which was almost exactly average.

The blue skies yesterday resulted in 5.34 hours of sunshine and after zero UV light on Friday, a reading of 0.9 on Saturday.

The clear skies overnight, not surprisingly, gave us the coldest night in the past two weeks with a minimum of 3.1C being 0.5C below average producing briefly a touch of ground frost.

Sunday arrived with thin high cloud and weak sunshine to start the day as barometric pressure builds again centred over Scandinavia with winds now coming from the east or east nor east.

Update on Sunday at 14.25: peak temperature of 9.8C at 13.27 being only second day below average (-0.3C) this month. North easterly wind freshens producing wind chill in that it feels more like 7C than 9C.

After many days of warm weather brought to us on a southerly breeze, the wind veered into the southeast on Friday with a consequent drop in temperature. The warmest part of the day was mid-morning at 11.5C as the thermometer slowly fell away all day with a minimum of 7.4C overnight.

More significantly, Friday was so gloomy with thick, low cloud that no UV light registered. This was the first such occasion since January 27th.

Saturday arrived with total cloud cover that was higher than on Friday and less dense.

Update at 19.00 on Saturday: temperature down again to maximum of 10.1C. This was the second coolest day in November although fractionally above average.