Yesterday was another in the succession of gloomy days with low cloud over the Marlborough Downs and misty conditions. There was a light shower mid-morning and another in the early hours of today. The maximum was 7.8C, close to the mean for December but due to the cloud cover overnight the minimum was 4.6C, which had risen to 6.8C at the time of readings at 08.00. However, with the barometer falling to its lowest reading for December of 1015.2mb at 08.00 today, the weather is about to change. There were indications yesterday as there was more movement of air with a maximum gust of 16mph, the strongest for almost a week.
The total rainfall for December was 22.6mm, which is just 25% of the long-term mean, or 69mm below. In between the cloudy days we did enjoy 38 hours of strong sunshine.
A more detailed analysis for December and the year of 2016 will follow tomorrow.
Latest at 16.00 on Sunday 1st
The ‘Cold’ weather front arrived just before midday bringing a dramatic change to the weather. The light rain that started an hour before became heavier, the wind abruptly veered from the south into the north, gusting to 23mph and the temperature dropped from a high of 8C to 2C with a wind chill factor equivalent to -1C.
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