The UV level on Tuesday rose to its highest since 24th July and peaked at ‘Very High’. This was surprising in the strong sunshine as we are only a month from the longest day. The breeze from predominantly north, combined with reduced sunshine hours, gave us a slightly cooler day than of late but the maximum of 18.7C, late in the afternoon at 17.47, was still +1.6C.
The low of 4.9C in the early hours of Wednesday at 04.52 was 1.9C below the 39-year average.
Intermittent sunshine through variable cloud greeted Wednesday morning and rapidly raised the temperature to 13.9C at 08.00. The Azores High is still driving our weather with the barometric pressure remaining stable reading 1027.4mb at 08.00. The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm, read at 08.00, registered 15.0C, the highest since 9th September.