Wednesday brought us a sunny morning but the cloud began to build up shortly after noon with spots of rain shortly afterwards. However, it was not until just before 16.00 that the real rain arrived and added another 9.3mm of precipitation to the monthly total that now stands at 106.2mm, which is 182% of the 39-year average. At the moment it is the fourth wettest July I have recoded since 1984.
There was little variation between the maximum temperature of 20.8Cm being 2.1C below average, and the minimum of 15.3C, which was 3.4C above average. This low was 10C above the previous cold night.
Thursday morning revealed total cloud cover with a low base that produced light drizzle just before 07.30. The barometric pressure has fallen away as yet another depression bears down on the UK.