This week has proved to be a warmer and drier period to date with just 1mm of rainfall, Monday into Tuesday, bringing the August total to 58.2mm, which is 87% of the 33-year average.
Tuesday night was the warmest of this month with the thermometer not dropping below 15.4C giving us the warmest morning at 08.00 this month of 17.1C, just pipping the previous record of 17.0C on the 17th.
After a sunny morning, with 2.11 hours of strong sunshine on sunday, the cloud steadily built up during the afternoon with rain arriving just before 5pm
Thanks to the southerly air flow the thermometer rose to a maximum of 19.6C at 13.53, which was 1.1C below average, before cloud began to obscure the sun.
The rain late evening and early morning amounted to 9.3mm, the second wettest day this month, bringing the total for August to 57.2mm, which is just 9mm short of the August average.
The thermometer did not fall below 13.7C overnight, which was 2C above the average.
This morning has dawned very dull with low light level and fog with visibility down to 200m at 08.00 from the cloud.
Saturday produced a very sunny day with a total of 9.61 hours of strong sunshine, the second highest total this month. However, the brisk wind from a westerly direction meant that the temperature was depressed giving a maximum of only 18.9C, which was 2C below the average for August.
The barometric pressure has been rising for the last couple of days, hence the improved weather, but it meant another chilly night with mainly clear skies giving a minimum of 9.8C, some 1.7C below the average.
This morning arrived with intermittent hazy sunshine allowing the thermometer to recover to 12.8C at 08.00.
Friday was memorable for the frequent lines of sharp showers that crossed the area producing a total 6.5mm of rainfall. The rainfall figure for August seems as if it should be higher but although we have had frequent short, sharp showers, we have not experienced a deluge that has occurred elsewhere. The August total is now 47.9mm or 72% of the August average.
Due to the bands of heavy cloud and showers the temperature peaked at 11.15 with a maximum of 17.7C, 4C below average, after a very sunny morning with 5.61 hours of sunshine.
The last rain occurred just before midnight allowing the temperature to drop to 11.5C, exactly average for August.
This morning has dawned with bright sunshine that raised the temperature to 13.4C at 08.00 with the promise of a much drier day.
Thursday gave us the warmest day all month also since 25th July with a maximum of 22.6C, which was 2C above the average. Sunshine was up on the previous day with 4.81 hours.
A long line of sharp showers gave us a glancing blow in the late afternoon at 17.10 with 0.6mm of rainfall that was added to with showers starting just after 2am this morning producing a total of 2.4mm.
As on previous nights the cloud meant another mild night with a minimum of 13.3C, which was 1.8C above the average.
Initially at dawn there was thick cloud, which by 7.30 was beginning to produce breaks that by the time readings were taken at 0800 meant the thermometer had risen to 14.4C as strong sunshine broke through.