The breeze from the east on Wednesday was stronger, gusting to 23mph, and although we had 12 hours of global sunshine, the cool breeze pegged back the temperature. The thermometer eventually rose to 16.7C at 15.29 being 0.4C below the 39-year average. The overnight minimum of 6.6C that was logged at 02.49 early Thursday was also below average (-0.2C).
It was another dry day with the UV level rated as ‘High’.
The barometric pressure has been falling away as the ridge of high pressure declined and we come under the influence of a low pressure system in the Atlantic. The weather pattern of late is about to change. As a result the cool easterly breeze will continue until mid-afternoon but is forecast then to slowly veer into the southeast then south. The barometric pressure at 08.00 read 1015.8mb, a significant drop of 12mb over the past twenty-four hours.