Friday was another very warm day as the heat from the continent slowly ebbed away although there was much residual atmospheric and heat including from the ground, which at 08.00 on Thursday read 20.9C at a depth of 5cm. The maximum reached was 25.2C being 2.5C above average.
Although during daylight hour it was dry a light shower occurred just after 23.00 amounting to 0.3mm. This brought the July total to 31.7mm whereas evaporation accounts for the loss of equivalent rainfall of 93.0mm
Saturday arrived with thick cloud, being very dull, from the weather trough just to the east.