After a cloudy and cool start to Wednesday the sun broke through in the afternoon, producing 5.24 hours of sunshine. However, the wind had backed into the north east and increased in strength during the day that tempered the temperature to a maximum of 18.9C, which was 1.3C below average. During the evening there were stronger gusts with a maximum of 28mph at 20.07.
The cloud increased overnight, brought in from the North Sea by the northeasterly wind, still strong, but by 07.30 Thursday morning the cloud was beginning to thin and by 08.00 there was almost continuous sunshine.
The barometric pressure rose again during the last twenty-four hours with a reading of 1028.9mb at 08.00, the highest pressure since 14th May. The wind direction is due to the high pressure currently situated to the north west of the UK and winds circulating around it in a clockwise direction.