Saturday was a pleasantly warm early autumn day with 6.35 hours of sunshine that lifted the temperature above the average with a maximum of 20.2C (+1.4C) at 14.37.
Late afternoon the wind backed from the southwest into the south as the early effects of ex tropical storm Helene approached the country.
Not surprisingly, as a southerly breeze set in bringing a warm night, the thermometer did not drop below 12.8C, being 3.5C above average.
The barometric pressure has been dropping over the past 24 hours as storm Helene moves closer to the western approaches.
This month we have received just 6.7mm of rainfall when the Carolinas in America received our average rainfall of 61.9mm in two days.
Sunday update at 16.15: brisk southerly wind, gusting to 22mph, lifts temperature again to maximum of 21.4C at 15.54, being 2.8C above average.