Monday brought us glorious sunshine with 10.3 hours of global sunshine (100W/m2) making it the sunniest day since 1st September. The thermometer rose to 12.2C, the highest for a week but still 1.9C below the 29-year average. The UV level again rose to a value of 4.0 being at the top end of the ‘Moderate’ strength.
Under clear skies the temperature dropped slowly during the evening and early hours of Tuesday falling below freezing (-0.1C) at 03.02 and a minimum of -2.4C at exactly 06.00 being 6.1C new the average.
Tuesday arrived with strong sunshine as soon as the sun rose above the horizon so that by 08.00 the thermometer read 1.2C.
The ridge of high pressure, still reaching from Norway to Portugal, is bringing the fine, dry settled weather with the light breeze likely to veer from the east into the southeast and likely south later today. The barometric pressure was 1029.2mb at 08.00.
It is still rather wet for gardeners and the soil has been getting colder again. The temperature at a depth of 5cm has read 9.3C, 7.7C, 3.8C and 2.5C for the past four days respectively.