During the very sunny morning and early afternoon the sunshine boosted the temperature to 13.7C at 14.16 being 5.7C above average and the warmest day since 14th November. However, advance cloud from an approaching weather front began to thicken with the first raindrops were observed at 16.40, that just dampened the ground, no quantity, after nineteen dry days. Further light rain was triggered the automatic rain gauge at 00.30 and 04.30 with drizzle at 07.40. However, the rainfall total was just 1.2mm.
Due to the thick cloud cover overnight it was a mild night with a minimum of 6.2C at 00.05 earlyThursday, which was 4.6C above the average.
Thursday after first light revealed that another weather front, a warm front, was passing over the area with low, thick cloud bringing banks of light drizzle that were driven on by a southerly wind gusting to 20mph, the strongest since the 3rd. A temperature of 8.3C at 08.00 made it the warmest start to a day at that time this month, equal to that on the 3rd.