Tuesday was the second sunniest day this month after Monday (10.75 hours) with 9.95 hours of strong sunshine.
The high pressure slowly slipped away over the past twenty-four hours to the North Sea. The clockwise rotation of wind meant we now had a breeze from the south, which produced a slightly warmer day after the very cold start. The maximum reached at 15.02 was 17.0C being 1.6C below the September average.
Tuesday was another dry day, the thirteenth this month. Total rainfall for September is 48.2mm and is almost exactly the same as the evaporation at 48.47mm.
Anther cold night was to follow under clear skies with a minimum of 2.9C being 6.3C below average.
Wednesday arrived with initially hazy sunshine but as the sun rose above the horizon and cleared thin, wispy cloud it became strong around 08.00 when readings were taken lifting the temperature to 4.7C at that time.
Update on Wednesday at 17.10: summer returns with light southerly breeze, maximum gust of 10mph, lifting temperature to a maximum of 21.5C at 15.54. This was 2.9C above average and the warmest day in the last ten.
Update at 18.40: sunniest day since 6th August with over 11 hours of strong sunshine.