Brief showers in the early morning on Wednesday and again on Thursday produced 5.6mm of rainfall making it the wettest day since 13th January. That took the February total to 11.4mm, far below the 39-year average of 67.2mm.
After a warm day on Wednesday with the wind from the west, the thermometer reached 10.2C being 2.2C above the average. Overnight the wind veered into the north and north-northeast that brought the temperature down to a minimum of 3.5C just after midnight at 00.05, by 08.00 that had recovered to 4.7C.
Thursday at first light revealed steady rain and the colder northerly wind gusting to 23mph, that meant a wind chill so outside it felt more like 2C than 4.7C.