The airstream on Friday veered into the northeast, not seen for a month. The air from this direction is cooler although the thermometer did reach 9.7C initially before falling back in the afternoon. Overnight the temperature dropped to 0.8C producing a ground frost and being 0.8C below the average.
There were a couple of very light showers of drizzle that amounted to 0.7mm taking the monthly total to 12.1mm when the average for February is 67.2mm.
Saturday arrived with a little brightness but this was soon muted by a large are of cloud arriving on the northeasterly breeze. The shift in wind direction is due to the anticyclone migrating just off the Scottish north coast, which as the air rotates clockwise, produces the wind from the northeast.