Wednesday gave us over 8 hours of hazy sunshine, especially in the morning before the cloud began to thicken and the cloud base lower as a weather system approached from the Atlantic. A few rain drops were observed at 17.15 but soon evaporated. With little sunshine in the afternoon the maximum of 24.0C, which was 1.3C above average, occurred at 14.34.
Due to the thickening cloud the UV level was the lowest since 18th June with a reading of 6.3, reduced to the high category.
The overnight thick cloud meant a very mild night with a minimum of 13.4C, which was 1.6C above average.
Just after 03.15 rain began to fall from a cold front passing over the area with the rain ceasing just after 06.30 producing 5.2mm of rainfall making it the wettest day since 24th June. The gardens will have benefitted from this modest fall of rain and the rainfall capture in water butts mean two out of my six are now full.
By 08.00 Thursday the cloud had lifted and the temperature recovered to 16.0C. The barometric pressure reads 1008.6mb, the lowest this month due to the Atlantic depression.
Update on Thursday at 18.00: a cooler dat with peak of 21.5C, being 1.2C below average. A dry day with the highest peak solar energy this month but as next weather front approaches from the Atlantic wind gusts are beginning to rise.