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With winds persisting and increasing from an easterly direction over the last twenty-four hours the temperature at 0800 was 1.8C but felt like -1C taking into account the wind chill factor. There was minimal strong sunshine yesterday (0.13 hours) following the many hours enjoyed on previous days to act upon the temperature.

The wind has veered a little more into the north-east, which brought a much drier air, only 80% at 0800, and a maximum of 4.9C yesterday. There was no overnight air frost but a slight grass frost, not very evident due to the much lower moisture content of the air mass. The highest UV level (1.9) was recorded since mid-October.

Yesterday brought 6.91 hours of strong sunshine, the second highest this month and a maximum of 6.2C, just below the mean for February. The clear skies overnight meant another hard air frost with a minimum of -4.1C just after 3am. The light winds yesterday, with a maximum of 11mph, dropped out overnight.

There were 3.5 hours of welcome strong sunshine yesterday with varying cloud amounts and light winds. As the evening and night progressed the clear skies meant a hard air frost with a minimum of -3.7C.

Yesterday the wind veered into the north-west and brought cooler, clearer air with a minimum of 0.8C producing a slight grass frost overnight. The sun did briefly break through around midday giving us 0.42 hours of strong sunshine.