Author: Eric Gilbert

With another 8.1mm of rainfall yesterday morning it brings the total for November to 117.1mm, which makes it the wettest month this year. This total is 128% of the 32-year average or +25mm. The rain let up in the afternoon but the cloud was very low and heavy though it did thin a little overnight to allow the thermometer to drop from a peak of 8.8C to 4.8C at 08.00. We have now endured three days without sunshine.

Yesterday was another dismal day with very low cloud and much rain. Another 17.2mm was recorded, this brings the total for November to 109.0mm, which is 119% of the 32-year average or + 17mm. This figure is close to the total for the last two years, which had 107 and 122m respectively, but far lower than the very wet November in 2002 which produced 203.5mm.
The thermometer recovered to near average with a maximum of 10.2C and didn’t drop below 7.1C overnight, well above average.
This morning dawned with similar weather to the previous two days but the barometric pressure has started to rise rapidly heralding a ridge of high pressure that should produce brighter but especially drier conditions. The wind has also dropped after the gusts to 25mph yesterday and currently in single figures.

Yesterday was a sunless day when the thermometer struggled to reach a maximum of 5.0C, the coldest day this month and 5C below the average. There has been the odd light shower overnight but the heavy rain started just after 5.15pm that brings the total for the last twenty-four hours to of 9.6mm The monthly total is now 91.8mm, which just exceeds the 32-year average for November.
The barometer has been falling since late yesterday afternoon and reads 988.4mb at 08.00.

The past twenty-four hours have brought some real weather thanks to storm Angus.
The temperature slowly rose to around 6C during daylight hours but dipped early evening to then rise to 8.4C at 01.03. With the wind backing into the north the temperature has dropped over the past three hours reaching a low of 3.7C at 08.00.
The rain started just before 6pm and intensified just before and after midnight producing 25.3mm, the wettest day since 27th August. This brings the total for November to 82.2mm, which is 90% of the long-term average with much more to come in the next day or so.
Winds intensified to 28mph during the early evening but peaked at 31 mph just after 5am. The wind yesterday started off from a south-westerly direction, backed into an easterly late evening then during the last eight or so hours continued backing into the north then north west at 08.00. The effect of the strong wind and low temperature was a wind chill factor in that it felt more like -3C.
All this was brought about as the storm Angus approached and departed to the east. The barometric pressure dropped rapidly to a minimum of 971.6mb at 04.20, the lowest since the end of March, since rising rapidly to 982.1mb at 08.00.

The effects of the cold front were felt yesterday when the thermometer struggled to reach 4.9C just after midday. The occasional showers, especially in the early evening, produced another 1.3mm of rainfall. After falling over four consecutive days the barometric pressure reached a low of 991.9mb early yesterday but the last twenty-four hours have seen a recovery to 1002.6mb this morning.
Overnight the clearing skies meant that the thermometer dropped further with a light frost giving a minimum air temperature of 0.2C at 08.00. The recent rainfall and high humidity produced much frozen moisture on surfaces that gave the impression of a much harder frost. The sun began to rise above the horizon at 07.50, in an almost clear blue sky, which will shortly begin to lift the temperature.