Yet again on Thursday the wind came from the north east, but not quite so strong, that allowed the temperature to rise to 4.3C, still 2.8C below my 40-year average. Only the first three days of this month were above the average. There was light drizzle in the early evening around 17.00. The temperature dropped very little over night thanks to a duvet of thick cloud that minimised any warmth escaping to the atmosphere, as result a minimum of 3.9C (+2.6C) was logged at 08.00 Friday.
Friday didn’t really dawn, it staggered into happening as it was so dark. The total cloud cover remained thick and low. The anticyclone centre is moving very little, edging slowly from the north of Scotland to the west of Scotland so no great changes today with the wind still coning from the northeast or east northeast. The pressure reading at 08.00 was still very high at 1038.3mb, down a touch from its peak of 1040.0mb on Thursday. Due to the slight warmer day and night the soil temperature at a depth of 5cm has risen to 3.1C at 08.00 from a low of 0.2C yesterday.