The temperature for Christmas Day was mild with the thermometer climbing to 10.6C by 14.10, which was 2.5C above the average. From that time the wind edged into a westerly quadrant, a cool direction and the temperature began to slowly fall away. However cloud and showers, the last just after 02.00 on Monday meant the sky then began to clear and the temperature to drop more rapidly to reach 2.2C at 08.00.
Another 6.8mm of rainfall took the monthly rainfall to 83.3mm, still 8mm below the 38year average.
Boxing Day dawned bright with clear skies and the thermometer continuing to fall away to reach 2.1C at 08.40.
The centre of the deep low pressure is currently just off the coast of Scotland, east of Iceland, which produced the wind direction change with today producing a westerly light breeze. As a result of the depression easing away the pressure has been rising quite rapidly putting on 9mb since this time yesterday.