An anticyclone has settled over Scotland and continues to produce a northeasterly breeze, which is a cool direction. The cool airstream meant the maximum on Saturday was just 6.7C being 1.4C below the average. An air frost occurred overnight as the thermometer dropped to -0.5C, which was 2.1C below average.
The UV peak reading of 1.9 was the highest since October, but still in the ‘Low’ category.
Sunday arrived with glorious sunshine that lifted the temperature to 1.6C at 08.00 with the barometric pressure rising significantly over the past twenty-four hours due to the closeness of the anticyclone, with a reading of 1026.8mb at 0800, the highest for a week.