The temperatures on Wednesday showed a modest recovery from the very cold weather of previous days. The slightly milder air mass from the Atlantic, that traveled clockwise around an anticyclone arrived on a westerly air movement then Northwest. The maximum of 4.4C was still 2.6C below the average but an overnight minimum of 0.5C, being 2.6C below the average, was the first above freezing night since the 16th. The maximum wind speed of 12mph was the strongest since the 18th.
The ground temperature at a depth of 5cm registered 0.2C at 08.00, the first day above freezing since the 17th.
Thursday began cloudy but just before 09.00 the sun began to roie above the cloud bank on the eastern horizon and shine strongly. The airmass from the Atlantic will continue but from the north today.