Author: Eric Gilbert

Sunday gave us another very cloudy day with the north-easterlies persisting, still giving wind chill. During the evening the temperature dropped to its lowest at 21.30 with a reading of 3.9C but has since recovered a little to 5.1C at 08.00.
This morning the cloud is thinner and showing signs of breaking up.The noticeable feature is that the humidity at 08.00 is down to 84%, which is the lowest at this time of day since August. This heralds the arrival of drier, brighter air from the continent as the anticyclone intensifies and repositions itself.

Yesterday returned to the predominately cloudy weather, if thinner cloud, that gave just a glimpse of the sun for 0.03 hours! Consequently, with virtually no sun and the continuing north-easterlies, if less strong, the temperature was depressed with a minimum of only 7.0C, some 3C below the average for November.
This morning is dawning overcast with low cloud as a weather front passes in a southerly direction over this part of the country. The cloud cover meant no frost again, that is fifteen consecutive nights without a below zero reading, giving a reading of 5.9C at 08.00.

After five days without seeing the sun and dominated by heavy cloud, it was a relief to enjoy 5.8 hours of strong sunshine yesterday. It did nothing to bring warmth as the maximum was only 8.4C, with the persistent, strong north-easterlies peaking at 23mph persisting throughout the day only moderating overnight.
Today has dawned with the thick cloud having returned and the wind still from a north-easterly direction but much weaker, up to 10mph, giving a reduced wind chill as compared to previous days. No frost occurred overnight due to the cloud having returned with the thermometer reading 5.1C at 08.00

The nagging north-easterlies have been persistent for the past two days and nights with little variation in strength. They fall a little overnight and just before dawn pick up again. Yesterday was another day without sunshine but due to the drier air the evaporation for the day has increased as the land surfaces begin to dry out. The maximum temperature yesterday was 8.2C, which is 2C below average with a maximum gust of wind of 31mph at 12.52.
This morning the sun is just breaking above the horizon as I write this at 08.00 with just thin cloud. The wind is again gusting to over 20mph giving a wind chill factor in that it feels more like 0.5C when the thermometer currently reads 4.4C.

Yesterday was the first dry day after sixteen wet days due to the wind now coming from a drier north east. Wind from this direction is cool so it was not surprising that the maximum yesterday, during the daytime, was 7.6C although this rose a little from late afternoon to a maximum of 8.1C in the early hours this morning. This was due to the very strong wind abating slightly from an average 10 minute speed of 13 mph to 10mph with a peak gust of 27 mph just after midnight. The strong winds gave a wind chill factor yesterday in that it felt more like 3C in the afternoon rather than 7C.
The thick cloud, as on several previous days, has returned this morning after the the thinner, higher cloud yesterday.