Monday started with a little brightness but soon the cloud thickened and rain began to fall just after noon but was intense between 14.15 and 14.30.
The maximum temperature of 7.3C occurred at 13.15 as the cloud thickened ahead of the rain arriving, being 0.3C above the average. Overnight the minimum was 2.3C until just before dawn when the thermometer dropped to 0.6C, being 0.5C below average.
During the early hours of Tuesday morning, starting at 01.45 and heavy at 02.00, more showers occurred and as the temperature dropped to around 2.5C, they fell as sleet and snow. The precipitation for January now stands at exactly 90mm, which is 0.6mm below the 35-year average.
Tuesday arrived with thin, high cloud and weak sunshine as the sun rose above the local eastern horizon at 07.56.