Windrush Weather

Author: Eric Gilbert

  • Ridge of high pressure brings sunshine

    After a damp start to sunday, with light showers amounting to 2.2mm, the sky brighened after midday. It was another mild day with light winds and a maximum of 12.9C. The thermometer drifted down overnight to a minimum of 3.2C just before 7am.
    This morning has dawned with strong sunshine resulting from the temporary ridge of high pressure currently over the UK.

  • Mild, bright and calm

    Yesterday was another calm, mild and quiet day with a maximum of 14.4C and the strongest breeze only reaching 15mph. It was the first sunless day for a week.
    Light rain commenced just after 3am today with a total of 2.2mm as another weather front crossed the country. Low cloud and light rain persisted until around 11am

  • Highest UV level for over five months

    What a glorious day yesterday was? The thermometer soared to a maximum of 15.1C just before 2.30pm, the warmest day 31st October, and 5C above the mean for March. There were 5.36 hours of strong sunshine within which the UV level rose to 3.0, the strongest UV since 1st October last year. The strongest breeze was a maximum of 16mph, the quietest day this month, all due to the temporary ridge if high pressure.
    The clear sky before midnight allowed the thermometer to drop to a minimum of 3.9 at 00.12 but increasing cloud reversed the downward trend so that at 08.00 the thermometer read 7.9C. This morning the cloud base has been gradually lowering with visibility down to 1,000m at 08.00

  • Warmest day for three months

    Although there was a brief glimmer of sunshine yesterday it was like a spring day wth a maximum of 12.8C, which was recorded at 12.48. The legacy of the warm front was, with a cloudy night, a minimum of 7.8C, which is almost 6C above the long-term mean. The rainfall total was 1.7mm bringing the figure for March to 28.4mm.
    This morning variable cloud is slowly diminishing allowing glimpses of sunshine.

  • One fine day with sunshine then rain again

    As the sun got to work yesterday, with 3.36 hours, the afternoon felt quite springlike as the wind abated giving a maximum of 10.3C at 13.36. Later in the afternoon the temperature began to fall away when a minimum of 7.0C was reached just before 8.30pm. At this point the approaching warm front began to be felt as the thermometer began to rise again with light rain just before 10pm.
    The rainfall total to 0800 was 3.1mm and at that time the thermometer read 10.5C, the warmest morning since 10th December.