Yesterday the fog was quite dense at times with minimum visibility of 150m and persisted most of the day except for a lifting around 1.30pm for a brief time before returning mid-afternoon. Strong sunshine of 0.13 hours gave a brief respite from the gloom. The mild, moist air has meant both maxima and minima above average with 14.4C on sunday and 11.4C yesterday.
Author: Eric Gilbert
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Strongest winds this month
Another band of rain is sweeping the area today after a wet morning on thursday, which brings the total to 64.2mm for October. We have had 19 dry days this month so although there have been very wet days the total is 24mm below the mean. The wind strength has been rising since midnight with the strongest gust this month of 26mph recorded at 0815.
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Tuesday was mild, wet and windy
With the mild southerly air still affecting our weather it was not surprising that the maximum temperature yesterday was 16.1C, above average and the warmest day since 9th October. The afternoon and evening also brought several hours of rainfall amounting to 3.9mm, bringing the total for October to 54.1mm, which is 61% of the 31-year average.
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Mild southerly winds lift temperatures
After the very cold night/early morning of the 25th, the change in wind direction to southerly has brought warmer air with a maximum of 14.8C yesterday, just average for late October. Sunday brought a better day with light winds and almost 4 hours of strong sunshine, the highest for a week.
