The rainfall to 08.00 on Sunday was 12.7mm that continued for much of the daylight hours with another 13.9mm by 08.00 this morning. This brings the total for October to 38.9mm with the 34- year average being 84.8mm. We escaped lightly from the very slow and wandering weather front associated with recent storms when in the West Country they had over 100mm and parts of Wales had in excess of 200mm.
The low, thick cloud meant Sunday was very cool with the thermometer not getting above 11.8C, which was almost 3C below average and 10C below the Saturday maximum. The low temperature was also affected in that the wind veered into the nor-nor east, a much cooler direction.
The weather front still plagued us overnight that meant thick cloud cover acting as a blanket kept the temperature up giving a relatively mild night. The minimum temperature was 7.8C, being 0.4C above average.
Monday dawned with the thick cloud low over the Marlborough Downs and light rain.