The thick, low cloud brought moist air hanging about all morning, draping the hills, until 14.20 when a clearance arrived and modest sunshine lifted the temperature 9.7C being 1.7C above the average. Incidentally, only one day in February, the 8th, had a maximum below the average.
Rain showers triggered the automatic rain gauge at 00.15 Wednesday bringing 3.3mm of rainfall. This was the wettest day since 15th January (4.0mm) and took the monthly total to 5.8mm well, below the 39-year average of 67.2mm.
Wednesday at first light revealed the back edge of the weather front, low, thick cloud, with light rain falling until 07.40, followed by light drizzle.
The barometric pressure at 07.30 read 1011.0mb, the lowest pressure at that time since 19th January.