Monday brought us another wet day with intermittent rain in the morning but a much wider and persistent rain band crossed the area starting at 1835 and ending at 23.30. The daily rainfall amounted to 16.4mm, the wettest day since 31st March (28.7mm) and took the monthly total to 39.5mm being 65% of the 39-year average and only eight days into the month.
Not surprisingly it was a very cool day with the maximum of 14.1C some 3.0C below the 39-year average. Also no surprise that the UV level of 3.8 was rated as ‘Moderate’, the second lowest this month.
Once again the thick cloud cover gave us a mild night with the thermometer not dropping below 11.7C at 05.51 early Tuesday, which was 4.9C above the long-term average.
Tuesday dawned dull and cloudy but dry. There were a couple of very brief glimpses of sunshine just before 08.00 but soon eclipsed by the continuous cloud cover. The temperature at 08.00 read 12.5C, the warmest start to a day at that time since 30th October