There were several short showers on Thursday and again overnight just after 02.15 amounting to 6.5mm. That additional precipitation took the monthly rainfall to 25.5mm, just 38% of my 40-year average. There was intermittent sunshine in the afternoon that lifted the temperature to a maximum of 20.7C at 16.39 being 0.7C below average. There was little variation in the temperature overnight with a minimum of 15.3C at 07.30 early Friday.
Friday revealed a sunny start to the new day but very blustery thanks to Storm Lilian recently centred over mid-England and travelling in an easterly direction into the North Sea. The barometric pressure has dropped to its lowest all month with a reading of 1001.mb at 08.00. The maximum gust logged overnight was 28mph, the strongest all month.