Saturday 5th September
Friday was a damp and dismal day under perpetual cloud cover that limited the rise in temperature to a maximum of 18.6C mid-afternoon, being just 0.4C below average. Clearer skies overnight resulted in a minimum of 10.1C at 05.11, which was 0.6C above average.
Saturday arrived with weak sunshine as it struggled to break through, and then above, cloud on the eastern horizon, which limited the rise in temperature to 12.8C by 08.00, by which time the sun was shining strongly.The barometric pressure is now high, and still rising slowly, with a reading at 08.00 of 1023.4mb, the highest for a couple of weeks.
Today we will be predominantly under the control of the anticyclone that currently is centred just off the coast of Brittany, which will give us a fine day with average temperatures. As the centre of the high pressure edges away to the east, the breeze, which will be light, will later today back into the southwest and by early tomorrow morning come from the southeast. The air flow from this direction will have originated from the near Continent and will therefore waft much warmer air across the country on Sunday that is likely not only to be a fine day but a very warm day.
The start of next week will see the influence of the anticyclone wane as we come under the control of an Atlantic depression approaching the UK with more unsettled weather, sunshine and showers, from several weather fronts.
The image was taken from St Peter’s Church tower looking across the buildings of Marlborough College with the college chapel central in the background.