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The warm front has succeeded the cold front with the wind backing and now coming from a southwesterly direction. This brings sightly warmer air with greater moisture, humidity at 08.00 was 90% compared to 78% on the previous morning. Late last night there was a slight shower amounting to 0.4mm. The cloud cover meant a warmer night than the previous two with a minimum of 12.8mm.

Although we had a very wet day on the 1st with 20.5mm of rainfall the evaporation from plant life and the ground now totals 24mm. The drier air from the northwesterly air flow gave another low reading for humidity this morning at 78%. The past night was again cool with a minimum of 8.5C after a very sunny day yesterday with over 7 hours of strong sunshine.

The clear sky and air from a cool northwesterly direction meant that the thermometer tumbled overnight to a low of 6.5C at 04.55, which is 5C below the August mean. Limited sunshine yesterday gave a maximum of 19.5C, just below the average for early August of 20.5C. The sun rose strongly at dawn, in a clear sky, with the temperature recovering to 13.1C at 08.00.

Although the wind had veered into a more westerly/northwesterly direction yesterday it was still another warm day with a maximum 22.0C, which is 1.5C above average. The warmth was maintained overnight with a minimum of 12.4C. The drier air was evident this morning with the 08.00 reading of humidity just 75%, the lowest for three months, also the evaporation from plant life and ground sources has increased again to 3 and 4mm every day.

Summer returned yesterday thanks to the small ridge of high pressure with a maximum of 25.2C, 5C above the mean, and 12.7 hours of strong sunshine. Overnight the cloud that started to arrive in the evening meant a very warm night with a minimum of 18.2C, which is 7C above the mean.
This morning, as a cold front moved down from the northwest, light drizzle started to fall just before 07.30, but not measurable in quantity.