Wednesday 20th August.
Unfortunately all contact with my station ceased at 06.29. I hope this will be corrected soon.

Update: At last a factory reset has got the station online at about 19.30 and the live update is now functioning and correct. Sadly I have, at the moment, not been able to retrieve data for the intervening 13 hours. Could have been worse!

Although there was variable cloud on Tuesday morning the sun did eventually manage to raise the temperature above average just before 14.00 with a maximum of 23.3C at 15.19 before thicker cloud arrived. This maximum temperature was just 1.2C above average. A minor trough over southwest England produced the cloudier conditions and rainfall over the West Country during the morning and areas of thicker cloud that drifted across Hampshire in the afternoon. The wind was brisk with a peak gust of 19mph that coming from the northeast took the edge off the warmth. A minimum of 13.2C was logged at 06.29 early Wednesday that had only risen to 13.4C by 08.00 thanks to the thick cloud cover that once again had drifted in from the North Sea overnight.

Wednesday revealed another cloudy start to the day with total cloud cover although a brief break just before 08.00 allowed a couple of minutes of weak sunshine. There is hope that the cloud will thin and break up as the morning progresses that should then bring us more sunshine this afternoon.

The anticyclone has moved very little over the past twenty-four hours with the pressure at 08.00 reading 1017.0mb, exactly the same as on Tuesday at that time. The pattern of the air stream will see the northeasterly continue as the air originating near Iceland travels down its eastern boundary before changing into the northeasterly around its southern periphery. The situation is as yesterday with the modest ridge of high pressure keeping the depression to the west and disturbed area over France at bay. There is no evidence at the moment of any relief for gardeners in the form of rain, even light rain, likely in the next few days.