The maximum of 24.3C on Tuesday was 3.7C above average making it the warmest day since 1st September. The UV level was again, not surprisingly, Very High with a value of 7.1. The overnight minimum under clear skies was 12.4C logged at 05.18 early Wednesday just after sunrise in Marlborough at 04.49.
There was glorious sunshine to start the new day on Wednesday with the light breeze coming from a northwesterly direction. The centre of the anticyclone is just off the northwest coast of Wales so light winds under the high pressure sitting over the UK due to little pressure gradient.
The high pressure will be the dominant feature well into next week. However, tomorrow it will ease a little further eastwards and northwards allowing the air stream to run around its southern flank bringing the extra heat from a hot Continent when the wind will veer into the southeast or south southeast. The heat will be maintained up to the weekend and into next week but by Sunday it will drop a couple of degrees from the peak temperatures.
Around 90% of the Atlantic puffin population are found in Europe with 80% in Iceland and Norway, the remaining 10% breed around Britain and Ireland.