Tuesday was a day best forgotten with a maximum 5.3C below my 40-year average, peaking at just 15.3C late in the afternoon at 16.04, this was 2C below the Monday peak. This was thanks to the lack of sunshine and the northerly air steam continuing to stream down cool air from the Arctic across the country. This was followed by yet another cool night, being even further from the average with a low of just 4.2C, which was -6C below.
Wednesday brought a little brightness first thing but cloud soon obliterated any sustained improvement.
A transitory ridge of high pressure will dictate our weather on Wednesday – but it won’t last. A deep depression to the west of the UK is moving in that will see the wind back from the north into the west after midday that will cut off the very cool air stream resulting in a slight improvement in temperature but still below average for the next day or two. The rain radar indicates that the second half of Thursday could be very wet. The barometric pressure had risen to 1022.5mb by 08.00, the highest since the 3rd.