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The westerly wind continued to affect our weather yesterday although the maximum temperature did reach 1C above the average at 14.9C. The brisk cool wind made it feet cooler than the thermometer indicated. Again no rain in the past twenty-four hours but the sunshine total rose again to 8.28 hours. Overnight cloud and a light breezes meant a less cool night than recently with a minimum of 5.4C, almost 2C above the average.
Today dawned with thick his cloud but as the morning progressed the sun broke through.

The north-westerly breeze brought more cloud yesterday and therefore less sunshine, 5.63 hours. As a consequence of the wind from that direction, and less sunshine, the maximum yesterday was 14.3C at 16.21. This is a drop of 8.5C from the very warm day yesterday. Much of the cloud melted away late afternoon that allowed the thermometer to drop to a minimum of 2.1C early this morning.
Another day without rainfall and evaporation this month amounting to 25mm, which is half the monthly rainfall.

The sunshine total was down slightly yesterday on the previous day with 11.5 hours but the south-easterly breeze brought very warm air, which propelled the thermometer to a maximum 22.8C at 15.31, thus is 9C over the average. Shortly afterwards the wind backed into the west and the temperature began to fall with a minimum of 6.9C overnight.
The sun made an appearance this morning between broken cloud. The humidity level at 08.00 was the lowest for several weeks, at 86%, due to the drier north-eastely breeze, the many hours of sunshine, which has dried out the land surface drying out

Saturday gave us another glorious day with unbroken sunshine totalling 12.16 hours, the greatest number of hours since 15th August 2016. This raised the temperature to a maximum of 19.8C just after 4pm, which was 6C above the 33-year average, making it the warmest day since September 28th last year. It was not surprising to find that the strong sunshine in a clear blue sky raised the UV level again to 5.6, in the ‘High’ category. Last night was not as cold as previous nights with a mimimim of 5.6C, which with the effect of strong sunshine from dawn raised the thermometer to 8.8C at 08.00.
The strong sunshine and light winds, now from a south-easterly direction with maximum gusts yesterday of just 12mph on several occasions, meant that we are now losing 3cm of moisture into the atmosphere every day.

Wednesday brought another day with almost seven hours of strong sunshine but again the northerly breeze pegged back the temperature to a maximum of 13.3C in the late afternoon. The UV level is creeping up again to a reading of 4.7, which is in the high end of ‘Moderate” strength, the highest since last September. Overnight the clear skies meant the thermometer dropped to a minimum of 1.4C at 06.57 this morning.
The morning dawned with sunshine, through initially light cloud. The low temperature again gave us a ground frost also fog formed briefly in the Og valley.