Tuesday saw light, brief drizzle to start the day that just made 0.1mm in the rain gauge. The day was cloudy until brief sunshine later in the afternoon that turned into a sunny evening, which lifted the temperature to a maximum of 22.5C, being 1.8C above the average, at 16.22.
Initially, the temperature under clear skies fell away to a minimum of 14.7C at 01.46 but the cloud began to fill in as the early morning progressed so that by 08.00, when readings were taken, the thermometer read 16.4C.
There was light drizzle again to start Wednesday that cleared shortly after 08.00.
A feature of Tuesday was the lack of wind with many periods when the anemometer was becalmed. The peak gust was just 12mph but for most of the day the wind strength was in single figures.
The wind dropped out entirely for a longer period overnight allowing spider’s gossamer threads to once again tie up the anemometer, which had to be freed by means of a very long pole as it is positioned 4 metres above ridge height.
Update at 14.35: current temperature of 21.1C, no sunshine today but humidity even higher than yesterday at 79% when last month often down to 40% in the hot weather.
Update at 16.20: brightness as cloud thinned, alas no sun, raised temperature to a maximum of 21.7C at current time. Wind still light all day with maximum gust of 12mph from the west.