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Yesterday we enjoyed 8.29 hours of strong sunshine, the third highest total for this month. Just before midday there was a short but heavy shower of rain, which contained small hail, with winds briefly gusting to 27mph.
This morning dawned with unbroken sunshine due to the clear skies, which produced a slight air frost with a minimum of -0.3C that disappeared quickly under the strength of the sun giving an air temperature of 6.5C at 08.00 in almost still air conditions.

Yesterday was the seventh successive below average maximum with a high of 10.9C (mean is 14.3C). This was tempered by strong winds gusting to 23mph. The cloud cover overnight meant that there was no air frost but it was chilly with a minimum of 2.6C. Today dawned with weak sunshine that at 08.00 had broken through thin cloud to produce strong sunshine. The rainfall for the past twenty-four hours totalled 2.7mm that mainly fell last evening.

There were 6.08 hours of strong sunshine yesterday with variable cloud cover. This cleared in the early evening, which let the temperature drop from its maximum of 10.7C to a low of -3.2C just before 5am. This was the coldest April night since 2013 ((-5.6C) but still above the record low set on 5th April 1990 with a minimum of -6.9C. A very brief shower of rain amounted to just 0.2mm.

Yesterday got off to a fine start with much strong sunshine during the morning, the total for the day was 6.44 hours. After midday the clouds started to develop with the first shower at 12.06 that contained soft hail or ‘graupel’ within the rain. Frequent such showers plagued the afternoon producing 1mm of precipitation. There was a slight air frost overnight with a minimum of -0.1 at dawn.
Today has again started with strong sunshine, 1.7 hours before 08.00 and at that time the thermometer had risen to 4.5C.

The very brief showers yesterday produced only 0.4mm of rainfall and due to the frequent cloud cover only 0.58 hours of strong sunshine was recorded. The UV level nudged into the ‘High’ category yesterday, the second time this month.
This morning the sun rose strongly with over one hour of strong sunshine before 08.00 but intermittent cloud is now interrupting the promising start to the day.
The wind has backed into the north west bringing a slightly less cold air, maximum yesterday of 11.4C, but a drier air with the humidity of 81% at 08.00.