After a mild day on Thursday when the thermometer rose to 10.6C, being 2.5C above average, the rains returned overnight producing another 12.1mm of precipitation. That additional rainfall took the monthly total to 71.3mm, still 20mm below the long-term average.
The minimum of 7.4C overnight was thanks to dense cloud cover minimising loss of warmth to the atmosphere, being 4.9C above the average.
Friday arrived dark, wet and gloomy as the next weather front slowly passed, coming on a light southwesterly breeze. The barometric pressure reading at 08.00 was 998.8mb and falling. This was the lowest pressure since 23rd November and due to a deep depression just to the west of Ireland that is producing the sequence of weather fronts and mild, moist air.