Tuesday was another unsettled day with sunshine of 1.9 hours but rain in the morning and again in the afternoon amounting to 2.1mm.
The brisk south westerly wind, gusting to 24mph, meant a milder day with the thermometer rising to 10.9C being 3C above average.
Clearing skies overnight saw the thermometer tumble to 1.3C at dawn on Wednesday, which was 0.9C below average and giving a short lived ground frost.
Wednesday dawned with clear skies and the promise of much more sunshine as the barometer has risen 17mb in the past twenty-four hours, now the highest pressure for three weeks.