At a time when we don’t want to switch on the central heating the weather gets even cooler. The northwesterly breeze on Tuesday continued that with minimal sunshine meant another cool day with the maximum of 13.8C a significant 5.1C below the average making it the coldest day since 1st May.
There were a couple of very light showers mid-morning and around mid-day that produced 1.4mm of rainfall. The loss of rainfall through evaporation now almost equals the rainfall for September with rainfall of 46.7mm and evaporation of 46mm.
Ot has been a cold night wit the thermometer sinking to 5.1C at 02.45 early Wednesday. That low was 4.3C below the 38-year average.
Just after dawn there were brief glimpses of weak sunshine that were soon obliterated by thick cloud. The thermometer had risen slightly to 6.6C at 08.00, a cold start to the day.