Author: Eric Gilbert

Thursday was such a change from previous days being mostly cloudy and only 13 minutes of sunshine. However, the warm, moist air from the continent brought on a southeasterly breeze, meant another above average day with a maximum of 14.1C, being 4C above average.

There were a couple of light showers overnight amounts to 0.7mm

Friday arrived with thick cloud lowering over the Marlborough Downs giving very misty conditions in still air.

It has been the warmest night since 14th October with the thermometer not falling below 11.5C, which was 7.9C above the 34-year average.

Wednesday saw the thermometer rise even further under the influence of the Continental flow of air to a maximum of 14.2C. This was 4.1C above average and the warmest day for over a week.

It was another dry with the 4.36 hours of sunshine.

A very mild night followed with the thermometer falling to a low of 9.2C at 20.21 then rising to 10.1C this morning.

Thursday has arrived with a mainly cloudy sky and light winds.

Tuesday again saw above average temperatures, both by day and night, with a maximum of 13.0C (+3.0C) and the lowest overnight of 9.4C (+5.7C).

No rain fell in the east twenty-for hours.

Wednesday saw dawn break with a mostly cloud sky but minor breaks allowing some brightness to filter through. Another very mild start to the day with the thermometer reading 10.2C at 08.00.

Update at 16.15 on Wednesday: temperature up again to maximum of 14.2C, being 4.1C above average and the warmest day for a week. Very breezy morning with gusts to 19mph but becoming almost calm at dusk.

The temperature by day was up again on Monday to a maximum of 13.7C at 13.09 being 3.6C above average.

There was the lightest off showers late afternoon amounting to 0.2mm.

Overnight the thermometer dropped down to 7.2C at 07.45 being 3.6C above average.

Tuesday saw sunshine as soon as the sun appeared over the horizon triggering the sunshine recorder at 08.15.

Sunday brought us 6.67 hours of sunshine with the thermometer rising to a maximum of 12.7C being 2.6C above the 34-year November average.

There was a brief shower early this morning with just 0.4mm of rainfall added to the total, now 45.4mm when the average is 91.4mm.

Monday arrived with a large bank of cloud slowly easing away to the east with sunshine breaking through just after 8am following another mild night when the thermometer did not drop below 8.4C, which was 4.8C above average and the ninth successive above average night.

Update on Monday at 14.40: warmer day again with maximum of 13.7C being 3.6C above average and warmest day for almost a week.