The centre of Storm Noa was over North Wales on Wednesday midday (barometric pressure of 977mb) that brought us the lowest barometric pressure of 988.2mb since 31st March. The storm also brought us more rainfall with hail at 15.15 accompanied by thunder and lightning. There were two further claps of thunder at 1517 and 1523. In fact the radar showed a rash of lightning strikes over the width of this particular shower line being about 20 miles in width. The daily precipitation was 8.4mm with the monthly rainfall total now standing at 46.6mm, exactly 10mm below the 39-year average with over half the month still to arrive.
During the brief hail shower there were gusty winds that saw the thermometer drop from 9C to 4.6C. The strongest gust was 46mph at 11.25.
During the morning on Wednesday the thermometer slowly rose to a maximum of 9.6C, which was 4.5C below the average whereas overnight the thermometer dropped only a few degrees to reach 4.8C at 06.25.
Thankfully, the effects of Storm Noa had passed by the time Thursday arrived with sunshine as soon as the sun rose above the horizon, which lifted the temperature to 6.9C at 08.00. With the depression over the North Sea the wind has veered into the west or north-northwest and light.