After a sunny start to Sunday the cloud built up with a rain shower in the afternoon. The rainfall of 0.6mm was the only precipitation until Monday morning that took the monthly total to 91.9mm being 2.1mm above the 38-year average.
Sunday was a cool day with the maximum of 10.4C being just 0.3C above average. The temperature fell away considerably late afternoon and evening reaching a low of 2.8C at 05.16 Monday, which was 0.9C below average and only the second below average minimum this month after an identical minimum early on Sunday morning.
Monday before dawn revealed on the radar another weather front drifting across the area from yet another depression currently centred over southwest Ireland with an associated wide rain band. The first rain spots were observed just before 08.30 and by 09.00 were falling steadily. The air stream is currently coming from the southeast but as the centre of the depression moves northwards, up the west coast of Ireland, the wind is forecast to veer into the southwest late morning.
The barometric pressure has been falling for the last two days with a reading of 997.3mb at 08.00 due to the closeness of the depression with a pressure of 997mb at its centre.