Wednesday 1st October
Tuesday, the last day of September, was a very pleasant dry and warm day under the ridge of high pressure that produced many hours of sunshine that lifted the thermometer to a maximum of 19.5C at 14.39. This peak was 0.5C above average and it was the warmest day since the 19th. The residual warmth and encroaching cloud in the early hours of Wednesday meant the minimum of 5.3C was logged in the early hours at 01.22. The large, fragmented weather front to the north had a tail of thin broken cloud that saw the thermometer rise again to reach 7.8C by 08.00.

The start to Wednesday revealed a cloudy sky from the tail of the weather front that produced a few drops of rain, not measurable, at 07.50. By 09.00 the cloud was beginning to thin and the sky to brighten.

There is now more certainty in the track of ex-hurricane Humberto. The forecast track takes it up the west coast of Ireland and towards the west coast of Scotland that is going to bear the brunt of the stormy conditions. The centre of the ex-tropical storm is forecast to be very deep with a barometric pressure reading of 945mb Friday evening.

The cloud over southern England will build on Friday with precipitation late Friday night into the early hours of Saturday. At the same time the winds will begin to strengthen significantly probably reaching in excess of 40mph on high ground.