There were a couple of light showers during the afternoon but more rain fell briefly at 23.00 and then started again at 01.50 that turned to snow as the temperature dropped. The thermometer rose to 8.9C at 12.15 on Monday and then slowly dropped to around 6C for the evening. Thereafter, the temperature fell away to reach a minimum of 0.6C at 05.12.
The cold front arrived in the early hours of Tuesday bringing precipitation and a change in wind direction.
Tuesday at first light revealed a light coating of snow on the soft ground, not hard surfaces. By 08.00 the thermometer had recovered to 1.1C when a slight thaw of lying snow took place whilst very light snow, more consistency of drizzle, fell briefly at 07.40. The total precipitation amounted to 4.2mm.
This change in our weather was brought about by the depression sinking southwards down the east coast of the UK with the airstream veering from the west into the northwest. The barometric pressure had dropped to 1000.3mb at 08.00 due to the nearby depression. This is the lowest pressure reading since 18th January.