Thursday gave us a better morning with much sunshine, 7 hours, but just after midday the cloud began to build obscuring the sun for much of the remainder of the day.
It was a dry day. With the August rainfall total now standing at 80.8mm, the equivalent rainfall lost through evaporation has almost equalled that total with 77mm.
The thermometer peak on Thursday at 20.6C was 0.2C below average, however, the opposite was true of the minimum overnight as due to cloud cover we had a mild night with a low of 12.3C (+0.8C).
Friday saw brief, hazy sunshine at dawn but thick cloud shortly afterwards blocked all sunshine. However, with the barometric pressure easing upwards again, there is hope for a dry day with broken sunshine later.