During the strong sunshine on Wednesday the thermometer rose to 21.2C, making it the second warmest day this month and 4.0C above the 39-year average.
It was another dry day, we have now enjoyed ten continuous days without rainfall thanks to the Azores High. The rainfall May rainfall total to date is 52.7mm. Thanks to the dry days, drying wind and sunshine, the equivalent loss of rainfall through evaporation from ground sources and plant life now exceeds the monthly rainfall with 60mm disappearing into the atmosphere and continues at a rate of over 3mm per day.
The oats night was the mildest for over a week with a low of 8.7C being 1.9C above the average.
Thursday began well with brightness and briefly weak sunshine but at 07.15 the bank of cloud in the east had rolled over our area. The barometric pressure has intensified slightly with a pressure of 1029.6mb at 08.00. The temperature at 08.00 was 11.6C.