The breeze from the west and variable sunshine on Sunday, especially in the morning, limited the rise in temperature to a maximum of 22.1C at 14.13, which was 1.5C above average and almost identical to the high on Saturday. The anticyclone has moved much closer to the UK with the pressure rising 8mb since Saturday. The low of 13.0C was logged just before midnight at 23.59 when the minimum is usually much later, towards dawn. This low was 3.7C above average.
Monday began with variable sunshine and bursts of sunshine that saw the thermometer climb to 17.2C by 08.00.
The high pressure has now extended over the UK and towards the Continent and is likely to dominate our weather for the rest of the this week that will see temperatures climbing over the next few days. The barometric pressure at 08.00 read 1029.2mb, which was the highest since the end of December. The slight relocation of the high will see the breeze continue to come from the west today. The centre of the anticyclone is in the western approaches to the English Chanel so being almost under the centre of the high the wind will be light today.
The warmer days and nights have seen the heat slowly penetrate further into the ground. The temperature at a depth of 5cm has risen steadily with 15.3C, 17.2C, 17.9C, 18.4C, 17.3C and then 19.2C today over the past six days and will continue to rise as the week progresses. The temperature of 19.2C at 08.00 made it the highest since the 12th August 2024.