The temperature soared to 26.7C on Thursday, the highest for a week and 6.5C above the average. The westerly breeze was light wot a maximum gust of 15mph.
We have now had 16 consecutive days with an above average maximum and nine consecutive nights when the thermometer did not drop below the 39-year average.
The cloud cover and residual heat from the daylight hours on Thursday meant a mild night with the thermometer not sinking below 12.5C, which was 2.5C above the average.
Variable sunshine greeted the new day on Friday but by 08.00 more cloud had drifted across obscuring the sun. The barometric pressure has continued to build with the reading at 08.00 of 1024.4mb, the highest since the 6th.