Sunday 28th December
The northeasterly breeze, gusting to 30mph on Saturday, produced a very cold day although the thermometer did edge a little higher than the previous three days with a maximum of 6.3C at 12.40. Outside, the significant wind chill meant it felt a couple of degrees colder than that indicted on a thermometer. The peak was 1.2C below average. It was just after midnight when the thermometer began to very slowly edge downwards resulting in a minimum of 4.8C at 07.23 being 2.9C above average.
It was another gloomy and dull start to the new day on Sunday. The breeze from the northeast continues to drag cloud in from the North Sea.
Yet another twenty-four hours when the diurnal temperature range was minimal, the difference between night and day, with a variation of just 1.5C, due to the absence of sunshine by day to lift the temperature and thick cloud overnight that minimised the loss of warmth into the atmosphere.
These settled, if cloudy conditions, due to the continuing northeasterly breeze, will persist up to Tuesday. From Wednesday the wind will back into the northwest, signifying a a change in the weather. However, the projections indicate that the high pressure will drift southeast over the UK with two low pressure systems forming, one over Scandinavia and another down to the southwest over the eastern Atlantic. This arrangement will allow a cold, showery flow from a northwesterly quadrant to develop for a time, which could produce some wintry hazards, including snow to low levels and to north facing coastal areas at times, is the current thinking.