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The weather front yesterday brought thick cloud resulting in no sunshine and a maximum of 12.3C, some 4C below the average, the coldest day since the end of April. Overnight the thermometer dropped very quickly between 2am and 4am so that a minimum of 4.2C was recorded just after 4.30am. By 08.00 the thick cloud was beginning to thin as the weather front continued to move slowly northwards and the sun began to break through, the temperature had by then recovered to 9.2C
Yesterday, with the drying north-easterly breeze, another 5.6mm of moisture had evaporated from ground sources and plant life. This brings the total lost from evaporation this month to almost 77mm with rainfall at 53mm.

Yesterday was a glorious day with 9.94 hours of strong sunshine (100watts/sq.m.) and the highest number of global sunshine hours (13.3) since mid July 2015. The UV level was almost into the Very High category again.
This morning the cloud has travelled westwards from the North Sea to obscure the sunshine. The overnight minimum was 5.8C but at 08.00 the thermometer had only recovered to 8.1C that felt like 7C when considering the wind chill from the moderate north-easterly breeze.

Yesterday brought 6.82 hours of strong sunshine that with light winds gave a maximum of 16.7C, average for May. The thermometer dropped steadily overnight, under a clear sky, until reaching a low of 5.0C at 03.53. Dawn arrived with sun from the start that at 0800 had produced almost 2.0 hours of strong sunshine and a temperature of 11.8C with hardly a breath of air.

Yesterday the global sunshine totalled 10.3 hours whereas direct strong sunshine only reached 0.3 hours. This boosted the temperature to a maximum of 16.3C, average for May, the wind having veered from the south to the north-west. A heavy shower late afternoon brought 1.4mm of rain. This morning broke with glorious sunshine that raised the temperature, after a cold night with a minimum of 5.8C, to 11.6C at 08.00

The continuous cloud cover and almost continuous rainfall meant that the maximum temperature yesterday was only 14.4C, the coolest day this month. It was only the third day this month with no strong sunshine. The rainfall for the past twenty-four hours was 7.7mm bringing the total for May to 51.6mm (85%).