Yesterday morning, after the drizzle had cleared, there was a brief bright period but no strong sunshine. It was a very calm day with a peak gust of just 11mph. Total rainfall this month is 21.2mm.
Author: Eric Gilbert
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Another day with no sun and no UV registered
Yesterday was another overcast day with no sunshine and no UV registered. There were light showers amounting to 1.2mm. As the evening approached skies began to clear with a minimum of 3.9C before midnight but cloud returned with rain at day break.
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Yesterday the coldest but sunniest this month
Yesterday brought welcome strong sunshine, 4.3 hours, but the coolest day this month with a maximum of 10.2C, still above the mean for December and it was dry.
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Touch of ground frost
After enjoying 2.4 hours of strong sunshine yesterday the thermometer dropped overnight to a low of 2.9C around dawn giving a temporary ground frost. The barometric pressure at 0800 was the highest for over two months at 1033mb producing clear skies this morning.
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Extremely mild weather continues
With maxima 6C -7C above the mean for December and minimum temperatures in double figures the southerly winds continue to bring exceptionally mild weather. The maximum yesterday was 13.8C with a minimum of 10.3 but by 0800 this had risen to 11.4C. It was a dry day yesterday with 1.6 hours of strong sunshine but overnight rainfall amounted to 1.8mm.