Friday saw the last of the hot days, for the time being, with a maximum of 28.0C (+5.7C), the day marked by much more cloud and only 3.9 hours of strong sunshine.
The wind, now from a southerly direction, became gusty during the late afternoon as the low pressure approached.
Overnight the barometric pressure fell to its lowest this month, just before 5am with a reading of 1000.2MB, as a cold front passed through the area. This change in weather brought cooler Oceanic air from the Atlantic. The wind began to gust strongly just before 3am today with a peak gust of 27mph at 05.16 but still from the the south, the strongest gust since 26th May, bringing a short, brief shower that gave us just 1mm of rainfall.
Saturday arrived with broken cloud but the sun broke through by 07.30 raising the minimum temperature of 13.8C (+2.1C) to 14.9C at 08.00.
Update at 10.50: brief squall at 10.45 with wind gusting to 28mph and a few large rain drops but no quantity. A roll of thunder was heard at 10.58. The current storm passed to the west of us with storms last night passing to the east. This pattern has been observed often over the years as if the topography of the area deflects storms around Marlborough, unlike weather fronts.
Update at 16.15: gust of 35mph at 15.54, which was the highest speed since 1st March (39mph). A maximum temperature of 20.3C was recorded at 15.18, which was almost 8C down on the Friday maximum and 10C down on the Thursday maximum.
Update at 21.15: real rain at last with heavy rain for almost twenty minutes.