Thursday brought us 8.0mm of rainfall, very heavy before and just after dawn on Friday. This brings the December total to 39.5mm when the average for the whole month is 90.0mm.
The flow of vey mild, moist Atlantic air continued with little variation in temperature. The maximum was 12.2C and only dipped to 11.5C overnight.
Friday arrived with a very wide weather front crossing the area and very heavy rain.
Update on Friday at 16.35: more sunshine at last with over 3 hours although the temperature has been falling all day from peak of 11.7C at 08.00 to currently 6.2C.
