Wednesday 17th September
The high pressure that was centred over the Continent on Tuesday gave us a fine day that wafted warm air from around the Azores area that lifted the maximum to 18.1C at 14.17. This made it the warmest day since the 12th but still 0.9C below average. The thick cloud overnight meant a mild night with the thermometer not sinking below 11.9C just after midnight at 00.28 being 3.2C above average, thanks to the drift of warm from mid-Atlantic. Rain first triggered the rain gauge at 01.30 that resulted in a daily total of 1.2mm.

Wednesday struggled to come live under very dull, damp conditions thanks to a warm front and its associated thick, low cloud that was rucking drizzle after 07.30. The warm air had lifted the thermometer to 14.1C by 08.00, making it the warmest start to a day at that tine since the 7th (16.9C).

The recent depression, now centred to the west of Scotland, will continue to slowly drift northeastwards to be north of Scotland tomorrow, which will mean it will have less influence on our weather and allow the Continental high to edge closer resulting in a drier day on Thursday although cloudy with the best of the weather arriving on Friday.

I recently made mention of a disturbance in the eastern Atlantic, off the Verde Islands, that had a 90% chance of forming a Tropical Storm. Today they are stating that it is increasingly likely that this area will strengthen into Tropical Storm Gabrielle, which would be the seventh named storm of the season. Some forecast models show the system strengthening into a hurricane.

Note: I apologise that the live feed was not operational over the past twenty-four hours. This morning at 07.30 I received an email from the UK agent containing overnight instructions from DavisInstruments in America on how to reboot the whole system. The live feed now seems to be operating normally and thankfully, I have managed to retrieve the past twenty-four hours of data that was not available to me yesterday. The Daily Stats under the ‘This Month’ tab have been updated for the some of the incorrect data yesterday.

Stourhead: The beautiful Palladian house at Stourhead and famous landscape garden have been used as a filming location for several productions, most notably for the scene where Mr Darcy proposes to Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.