On Friday, just after 11.00, there was a little brightness as the cloud thinned and just before 12.00 glorious sunshine broke through intermittently over the next two hours. Such a treat after a week when we suffered under depressing, gloomy conditions. This brief sunshine lifted the thermometer to a maximum of 5.3C at 14.31, being 3.0C below average, before very slowly falling away during the evening. The minimum of 2.7 occurred at 22.39 and held steady for a couple of hours before slowly rising again to reach 4.1C at 08.00 on Saturday.
Sadly, Saturday revealed another gloomy start to a new day as the thick cloud had returned. This was due to the Atlantic low pressure system edging closer and throwing its advance cloud ahead of it. A few spots of rain were observed just before 19.00 on Friday evening and again just before 08.00 on Saturday but not measurable, recorded as a ‘trace’. Light rain began to fall at 08.25 as a wide, variable rain band edges over the area, extending from London to Cornwall. The barometric pressure has fallen almost 6mb to read 1019.0mb at 08.00
The struggle between the two weather systems looks as if it will continue to play out until after the weekend, the high pressure pushing back tomorrow, with continuing cloudy and cool conditions, as the wind is likely to back into the east again on Sunday.