It snowed all day on Wednesday, with brief breaks, as the weather front moved across the area. The breeze from the northeast was from a cool direction so that combined with the thick, low, cloud it was not surprising to find that it was the coldest day since 14th December with a maximum of just 1.2C being 9.4C below the March average. The additional precipitation amounted to 9.1mm that took the monthly total to 20.4mm being 34% of the long-term average and almost twice the February total.
The thermometer hovered around 1C for much of the night although it did dip to 0.5C at 02.30 on Thursday before recovering to 1.1C at 08.00.
Thursday arrived with light rain as the warm front approached, continuing the steady thaw, with the wind changing to come from a more southerly quadrant during the day.