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Today was the sunniest day since 9th November with 4.28 hours of direct sunshine. This resulted in a maximum of 11.7C, which is 2C above the long-term average.

Just before midnight the barometer started to rise, the wind veered into an easterly direction and increased in strength. At 0800 the humidity had dropped to 94%, the lowest for two weeks.
Yesterday brought over two hours of welcome sunshine and the warmest day since the 22nd with a maximum of 9.3C, almost the average for November.

Monday broke with much ice and hard frost, tuesday brought many hours of rainfall and today, under the centre of the high pressure and still conditions, widespread fog.
Another 12.4mm of rain fell yesterday bringing the monthly total to 116mm. This has been another wet month but less than the extremes of 172mm in 2009 and the record of 204mm, which was set in 2002.

The temperature yesterday reached a maximum of 7.6C, some 2C below the average for November. However, as the sun began to set the thermometer dropped continuously reaching a minimum of -2.7C, before starting to rise just after 4 a.m. as cloud moved in from the south. It was the coldest night since March 24th.
After three days without direct sunshine yesterday produced just over 2.6 hours.

It was not the coldest night this month in Marlborough, as was widely predicted. The thermometer dropped to -1.4C whereas on the 6th it was as low as -1.8C. However, at 0800 on the 6th the temperature had recovered to just above freezing. Today at that time, the air frost was just as deep at -1.4C.
The last twenty-four hours brought only the second time this month when both maximum and minimum were below the long-term average.