Sunday gave us another above average day with a maximum of 14.8C at 13.26, being +4.1C, before the cloud thickened. This peak was exactly the same as logged on Saturday. A small area of thicker cloud crossed southern England in the middle of the afternoon, with light rain at 14.55 and another just before 21.00, amounting to 0.8mm. The past night was also above average at +3.0C logged at 06.34 early Monday.
Monday after dawn revealed a sky with total cloud cover that had drifted in from the North Sea and produced misty conditions.
The depression is giving way to the anticyclone in the eastern Atlantic that will begin to influence our weather later today as the wind, currently coming from the north-northeast, backs into the west later this afternoon. The forecast for the jet steam track over the next few days indicates that high pressure will dominate our weather for much of the coming week.
The Met Office have recently put out a press release that an employee has just completed a pioneering achievement to be the first person to complete an apprenticeship in Digital Accessibility in the world. They say that “Weather and climate information is important for everyone, playing a role in keeping people safe. Work in this area involves ensuring that information on all of our platforms such as website, app and social media, can be accessed and understood by the widest possible audience, regardless of whether people have a visual, hearing, speech, motor, cognitive or other combination of impairments.”
They go on to state that “The use of colour to convey information, is an example of an area that has been worked on.” Understanding how people see the identical colour differently “means that we should radically change how colour is used to convey information”.