The numerous hours of welcome sunshine on Sunday lifted the maximum temperature of 8.3C just above average (+0.3C). However, during the evening and overnight the warmth dispersed into the atmosphere so that a minimum of -2.6C was recorded at 03.34 on Monday, which was 4.2C below the average.
It was another dry day with the UV level at 1.9, the highest this month, as on Saturday.
Monday dawned dull with high level cloud that had drifted in on the northeasterly airstream obscuring any possible sunshine. The temperature had recovered to 0.7C at 08.00 thanks to the cloud cover.