Author: Eric Gilbert

The north-westerly winds continue to bring depressed temperatures by day, 6.1C maximum yesterday, which is almost 4C below the mean for March. However, the winds were light and there was much bright, hazy sunshine before midday, although strong sunshine was limited to 0.2 hours. An air frost occurred again overnight with a minimum of -1.1C.

The northerly winds brought brief wet snow showers during the morning but it did not settle, amounting to 0.3mm of precipitation. After a maximum of 6.8C, about 4C below the mean, the thermometer dropped overnight to -1.7C but started to rise again just after 0400 to reach 1.2C at 0800.

Yesterday was another day with cold westerly winds which brought a high of 6.9C, several degrees below the average for March and a couple of hail showers, small in diameter. Overnight the thermometer dropped to 0.3C after a couple of light showers.

Yesterday brought a dry, breezy and bright day with just 0.22 hours of strong sunshine. Another day with below average maximum temperature of 8.4C (average = 10.4C). The brief showers overnight brought 1.4mm of precipitation, which briefly froze on the ground as the as the air temperature dropped to 0.1C, but was already rising to 1.8C at 0800.

Yesterday brought interesting weather. There were squally showers throughout most of the morning with a small disturbance at 0955. The winds increased, the showers turned from rain to small hail then briefly to snow. The barometric pressure made a dramatic rise of 1mb in the matter of a few minutes before dropping back again as the depression passed close by. Precipitation amounted to 5.1mm, the maximum gust of wind was recorded at 35mph and the peak temperature at 6.9C (mean is 10.4C). The rain stopped before noon and the sky brightened a little with 1 hour of strong sunshine during the afternoon. Decidedly not spring like weather!