Tuesday 7th October
Monday was a glorious day with blue skies and almost wall to wall sunshine. The warmth built steadily during the morning and reached a maximum of 19.6C at 14.43, which was 4.7C above average that made it the warmest day since 19th September. After a clear sky in the evening when the Hunter’s Moon could be seen very clearly. The temperature trace overnight indicated a slow fall in temperature until a minimum of 9.1C was logged at 03.27, when presumably the cloud drifted over that then limited any further loss of warmth into the atmosphere, in fact the temperature then edged upwards almost 2C to reach 11.4C by 08.00.

Tuesday dawned dull and gloomy under thick, low cloud and calm conditions.

The barometric pressure is holding firm, however, the air stream has backed into the southwest and brought, not only warmer air but moist air from its travels over the Atlantic.

There seems to be some confidence that the anticyclone that has arrived to the west of the UK will build and settle over or near the UK for a week or so, if so we have a period of dry, calm conditions with variable sunshine. The forecast track of the Jet Stream is for it to bend over the north of the UK leaving us on the warmer side of the Tropics where these high pressure systems develop.

Marlborough Mop Fairs. These fairs happen twice in October, traditionally on the Saturdays on either side of October 11th, which is the date of the historic hiring fair that began in the 1200s.