The barometric pressure continued high on Monday although the wind from the Northeast, a cooler direction, was much stronger gusting to 22mph. As a result the thermometer only rose to 21.8C being the coolest day since last Thursday and just 0.7C above the average.
It was another rainless day. The total loss of equivalent rainfall from the ground and plant life through evaporation in August is now 88m whereas the rainfall so far is only 18.0mm being 49mm below the 38-year average.
The overnight minimum of 10.2C was 1.5C below the average.
Tuesday dawned bright but soon cloud cover became total although the thermometer had risen to 13.5C at 08.00. The barometric pressure reading of 1023.7mb at 08.00 was almost exactly that logged twenty-four hours previously.