Cold, wet and miserable! That was Saturday.

Saturday brought a very wet and cold day. The thermometer did not get above 11.5C all day, which was a significant 7C below the average for September. Overnight the temperature fell away to a minimum of 8.2C at 08.00 this morning at the time readings were taken.

The other notable feature was the rain over the past twenty-four hours. This continued all day reducing to light drizzle in the evening. There was an eight hour period without measurable precipitation but just after 4am today the next wide rain-band arrived bringing consistently heavy rain.

The daily rainfall amounted to 12.6mm, the wettest day this month. This brings the total for September to 42.2mm, which is still 19mm below the September average but by the end of today will likely be approaching that total.

As the depression crossed the country and moved away to the east the wind slowly backed from the south into the east and then northeast during the evening. By this morning the wind has backed further, close to north, as an anticyclone approaches Ireland from the Atlantic with the promise of drier, warmer weather on Monday.

Sunday arrived with low, thick cloud as the next very wide rain-band moved in from the west.

Update on Sunday at 17.36: another very cool day thanks to a wet morning and the wind backing into the north then northwest, which limited the temperature to a maximum of 12.2C being 6.4C below the average. Broken sunshine began to develop in the early afternoon. Barometric pressure has been rising fast all day as an anticyclone approaches from the west, rotating clockwise bringing air from the north. The pressure is up 13mb in 12 hours, currently 1027.5mb, the highest pressure this month.

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