Due to the current mild weather there has been much in the media abut the warmest Christmas Day record temperature that was originally set at Killerton in Devon in 1920 at 15.6C. Yesterday the peak temperature of 12.1C was reached at 14.27. The December of 2015 was even warmer with a Christmas Day maximum of 13.4C and days before had reached 14.4C, which was the warmest December Day for 33 years in Marlborough. The mean maximum for December is 7.7C.
Overnight there was light rainfall adding to the shower late afternoon producing 1.1mm. The wind picked up during the afternoon yesterday but the peak of 23mph was recorded at just before 1am.
The barometric pressure is now rising rapidly heralding an intense high pressure system building over the UK producing much blue sky this morning as the temperature dropped to a minimum of 5.4C at 08.00. The wind has backed into a westerly direction bringing drier air and greater visibility.
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