Friday brought us the full effect of the Polar Maritime air from the Arctic that provided a much cooler day than of late with a maximum of 18.5C being 2.2C below average and the second coolest day this August after 17.1C on the 12th.
However, the drier, cooler air did provide more sunshine, 5.9 hours in total and the UV still at High.
The wind veered a little from west into the nor nor west during the day and was very gusty in the early evening with a maximum gust of 24mph.
There was a brief shower mid-afternoon and heavier, more continuous rain that started at 17.44 bringing the total for the day to 5.7mm. This increased the rainfall for August to 42.1mm, still well short of the average of 66mm.
Clear skies in the evening saw the thermometer plummet to a low of 6.5C at 04.25 before broken cloud arrived that partly obscured the sun at dawn.
Saturday gave us the coldest start to the day since 18th May with a reading of 9.3C at 08.00. By that time the cloud had moved away to the east allowing more continuous sunshine
Update at 18.50: second consecutive day of below average maximum with peak of 18.6C at 16.16 irrespective of 9.3 hours of strong sunshine making it the sunniest day since 6th August. A dry day with pleasant sunny evening.