After a wet morning on Thursday when another 3.8mm of rain was added to the total, the afternoon was brighter with sunshine.
The rainfall total for October now stands at 26.9mm, which is just 30% of the 38-year average.
The highs and lows of the past twenty-four hours were a peak of 16.1C, being 1.5C above average and a low of 9.8C just after midnight, that was 2.6C above the average.
Friday arrived with some brightness but shower clouds are not far away with more rain during the day in this changeable weather. The depression has moved closer with the barometric pressure at 08.00 reading 999.8mb, the lowest since 8th April.