Saturday 31st October
The fog was even slower to thin and disperse on Friday morning that restricted any sunshine to lift the temperature which peaked at 14.4C, being 0.5C below the October average. It was dry day with little wind movement being under the dome of high pressure. The past night was relatively mild with the temperature not sinking below 9.0C at 02.10 early Saturday.
Saturday arrived dull and gloomy under thick, low cloud that produced misty conditions over the tops of the Marlborough Downs and Savernake Forest, but no fog as on recent days. There was a slight air movement during the hours of darkness that kept the atmosphere slowly turning over.
The high pressure is here to stay over the weekend and will join up with a mate in the eastern Atlantic that will combine forces. Next week the Azores high will build over the UK with its centre near Scotland that will bring us fine days with variable sunny periods and little prospect of rain as it acts as a boundary keeping any weather fronts attempting to cross the country to the west of our area. However, the breeze is likely to increase over recent days and coming around the anticyclone in a clockwise direction will arrive between north and east, which will result in maximum temperatures dropping a degree or two over recent days but in fact be close to the November average.
There is just one day left in October with no prospect of rain today. The monthly rainfall total stands at 129.8mm, which is 143% of my 43-year record or plus 52mm, making it the wettest October since 2021.