The depression tracking up the eastern side of the UK brought consistently strong winds overnight and a gust of 36mph just before 0600. The rainfall over the last 24 hours totalled 5.0mm. With the barometric pressure just beginning to rise, after a low of 999mb, the winds will start to ease.
Author: Eric Gilbert
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Strongest wind gusts for eight months
Yesterday we experienced the strongest wind gusts since 8th February with a peak gust of 38 mph just after noon. The soil temperature, at a depth of 5cm, has been in single figures for the past four days and the lowest since early May and reading 7.9C at 0800 today.
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Windiest day since May 2014
Monday 6th brought a maximum gust of 30mph, the strongest gust since May 11th and overnight the barometer dropped to 993mb, the lowest since August as a depression moved across southern England. The disturbance brought considerable daily rainfall of 10.1mm with heavy rainfall starting just before 0300 today.
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Ground frost yesterday and 30mph winds today
Yesterday morning the air temperature dropped to 0.7C and there was a very obvious ground frost with much vegetation covered briefly in white. Today, as the weather front moved across us bringing heavy rain, the wind was gusting to over 30mph.
