Author: Eric Gilbert

The showers yesterday were heavy and accompanied by very strong gusts of wind, the highest just after midday at 37mph. The rainfall total for the past twenty-four hors was 11.3mm bringing the total for November to 55.8mm (average is 91.6mm). The maximum had again drifted down a little from the previous warm days with a high of 10.9C, just above average.
Rain again fell a couple of hours before dawn, some of which fell as snow giving a light covering. The minimum overnight was 1.1C that had crept up to 1.8C at 08.00 as the sun tried to break through the thin cloud.

Although no sunshine was recorded yesterday, the fifth day this month, the warm mid-Atlantic air pushed the thermometer to a maximum of 13.6C, some 3.4C above the average for November. The temperature held up overnight with a minimum of 9.4C, which is almost 5C above the average. There were brief showers before dawn amounting to just 0.9mm, which brings the total for November to 37.6mm.

The gentle westerly breeze yesterday brought very mild mid-Atlantic air across our region. As a result, the maximum temperature was 12.7C, which dropped during the afternoon but crept up again during the evening to each 12.7C again at 08.00. There was no sunshine, the third occasion this month due to the persistent thick cloud. Both maximum and minimum are well above the average for November, 2.5C and 5.8C respectively.
This morning the cloud is even thicker and lower bringing mist over the Marlboorugh Downs.

With 3.34 hours of sunshine yesterday it was a mild autumn day with a maximum close to the average of 9.8C. The warm air continued overnight, thanks to the cloud cover, giving a minimum of 5.9C just after midnight, after which the thermometer slowly rose to 9.3C at 08.00, the mildest morning this month.

Saturday was a depressing day with the rain that started after midnight continuing into the late morning followed by drizzle off and on, producing just 1.5mm of precipitation. However, there was a much brighter interlude for a time around midday when the cloud thinned and it became brighter, if for a short time. The southerly airstream and thick cloud meant that it was the warmest day this month with a maximum of 11.6C. It was only the second day this month without sunshine.
Just before 4pm, as the weather front departed to the east, the wind started to veer from the south into the north and the temperature slowly began to fall, giving a minimum of 4C, recovering to 4.7C at 08.00. This caused mist to form in the Og Valley.
Due to a temporary ridge of high pressure the barometer at 08.00 was reading 1026.2mb, the highest this month. There is thin high cloud allowing a watery sun to try and break through.