Sunday brought us a misty morning with weak sunshine after 09.30 but clouded over in the afternoon ahead of the next weather front as thin, high cloud began to drift across the area. Rain triggered the automatic rainfall gauge at 00.45, early Monday, and amounted to 8.1mm by 08.00. That additional rainfall took the monthly total to 21.5m when the 39-year average is 56.6mm.
The southerly air stream for most of the day on Sunday raised the temperature to 15.3C being 1.2C above the average. Overnight the cloud meant a mild night with the temperature now lower that 9.1C, being 5.4C above average.
Monday arrived dark and very wet as the rain band continued its eastwards progress, but became lighter after 08.30.
The ridge of high pressure is no longer with is as a deep and large depression, covering most of the Atlantic between America and France, closes in on us with the wind veering into the southwest. The barometric pressure has dropped 15mb since yesterday as the depression approaches with a reading of 1009.5mb at 08.00, the lowest pressure since the 1st.