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The maximum temperature by day yesterday was 1.6C but as the evening approached the thermometer slowly rose to a maximum of 5.2C at 00.43 and then slowly fell away to reach 3.3C at 08.00. No sunshine or rainfall yesterday but the wind, on several occasions, touched 26mph.
This morning there is a dramatic change from the previous days of thick cloud and showers as the thin cloud is allowing weak sunshine to break through but as the wind is still gusting to over 20mph the wind chill is making it feel more like -1C.

The last twenty four hours have been interesting weather wise. The wind backed slightly into a more northerly quadrant and picked up in speed giving a wind chill factor that meant it felt more like -3C. The maximum reached at 13.56 yesterday was 1.7C, which began to fall as the first very light snow started to arrive just before 3pm. By 4pm the flakes had grown in size. Around 4.30pm there appeared to be small hail in the shower, which unlike the snow flakes that land softly, bounced on impact with the ground. By then the thermometer had fallen to 0.3C and reached its minimum of -0.6C yesterday evening at 18.36.
There was a further fall of light snow overnight, which meant the total precipitation was 1.2mm, having gently melted the snow this morning, which had accumulated in the rain gauge.
This morning the cloud is a little higher but thick enough to block out any possible sunshine and a temperature of 0.4C at the time of reading at 08.00.
The ‘Snow Moon’, appeared after dusk when the showers had ceased and before further cloud arrived. It is the name given to the February full moon, because historically it’s away been the snowiest month in America, I read.

The north-easterly winds continue to dominate our current weather with a maximum of only 1.6C yesterday, just after 1pm, which is 5.5C below the average for February. The thermometer was static for many hours in the evening at 0.8C. No sunshine and no measurable UV light.
Since midnight the wind speed has slowly been increasing, the temperature to also slowly fall and the humidity to rise as thicker cloud enveloped the area. At 08.00 the thermometer read 0.4C with a wind chill that meant it felt more like -3.6C as the wind gusted to 18mph. The very low cloud is enveloping the Marlborough Downs and Savernake Forest with visibility varying from 500m to 900m.

Yesterday saw the anticyclone over Scandinavia begin to exert its influence over the UK as the barometric pressure continued to rise reaching its highest (1030mb) for three weeks and bringing cloud cover from the east as the wind veered further into the northeast mid-morning. The maximum temperature was at 10.53 with a reading of just 4.7C, over 2C below the average. The thermometer then started to fall continuously, but slowly, reaching a low of 0.8C at 08.00. It was the coldest day since 26th January.
This morning the wind is still light but the drier, colder Polar Continental Air has brought reduced humidity, 93% at 08.00, and a wind chill making it feel like -1C. Thick cloud cover means no sunshine after a brief glimpse yesterday morning.

Yesterday started with light winds from a southerly direction but just after 4pm the wind veered into the north west with a maximum gust of 16mph at 15.48. There were 5.75 hours of strong sunshine, the sunniest day for almost three weeks, which pushed the thermometer to a maximum of 9.9C, which is nearly 3C above the mean for February.
Overnight the temperature slowly dropped following a shower just after midnight that measured 1.2mm. But just after 5am the thermometer dropped abruptly to a minimum of 1.5C at 08.00 giving a brief ground frost.
This morning the sky is predominantly cloudy with breaks for limited weak sunshine and virtually still wind conditions.