Author: Eric Gilbert

Yesterday gave us almost five hours of strong sunshine and a maximum of 9.4C, just a little below the average. The cloud began to thicken in the late afternoon when the thermometer began to rise slowly, continuing overnight, reaching 8.9C at 08.00, the warmest morning this month.
Rain set in shortly after 4am and totalled 4.0mm at the time of reading at 08.00. This was all brought about by a weather front crossing the area from the west with the wind backing from the northwest to the southeast.

Yesterday brought two hours of strong sunshine that boosted the temperature to a maximum of 10.3C, first above average since 1st November. It was breezy with the wind gusting to 24mph early afternoon with a shower amounting to 0.8mm. The thermometer held steady at around 6C until just before midnight when it fell continuously to a minimum of -0.1 at 08.00, but the hazy sunshine began to work on this shortly afterwards.

Temperatures recovered yesterday with a maximum of 9.4C and 1.55 hours of sunshine.The wind was still brisk, maximum gust of 21mph, and from the cool northwest. The rainfall was minimal at 0.6mm. In the late evening the wind backed into a southwesterly direction, that combined with the cloud cover, gave a minimum of 3.0C just after midnight, recovering to 6.2C at 08.00.
This morning has broken with much cloud and a light breeze.

Although yesterday started dry but overcast the active weather front arrived late afternoon with rain starting just before 6pm. It was a cold day with a maximum of just 5.7C, which is almost 5C below the average for November. The rain continued for twelve hours with a substantial fall of 22.9mm, the wettest day since 27th August.
The barometric pressure fell rapidly over the last eighteen hours with a low of 993.0mb at 02.57, the lowest reading since March, and is now rising rapidly. Due to the cloud and rain there was no frost and little variation in temperature overnight, reading 4.8C at 08.00

The 5.1 hours of strong sunshine yesterday was very welcome but the strong northerly winds kept the maximum to 7.3C, 3C below average. As forecast, the cold northerly air stream and clear sky meant that the thermometer dropped steadily overnight to a minimum of -3.5C. This morning broke with welcome sunshine but at 08.00 it had made very little difference to the temperature.