A turbulent 24 hours

Saturday brought us a mild day with the thermometer hovering around 9C for much of the day but just after 18.00 a warm front passed over the area that raised the temperature to 11.3C at 03.39 Sunday morning. This high was 3.3C above the 35-year average.

The significant feature of the past twenty-four hours was the wind speed, which rose steadily after 20.00 with a squall at 22.27 when a gust of 34mph was recorded. There were other strong gusts after midnight peaking at 26mph and then dying down a little.

A rain band associated with the warm front lasted for a couple of hours just after midnight producing 5.8mm of rainfall.

Sunday saw broken cloud after dawn and the temperature dropped back to 8.8C

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