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At the start of the week maximum temperatures only just made double figures, at 11C, but the southerly winds over the last two days have increased the peak temperatures by 6C to 17.5C today, 3C above the long-term average. The very low minimums this week, of 2C, have also recovered to 10C, which is 3C above the long-term average.
The rainfall over the last five days amounted to 34.5mm bringing the total for the month to 72.5mm, which is 82% of the long-term average with two weeks of the month still ahead.

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.

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.

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.

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.