Cool day followed by cold night

Another below average maximum on Tuesday, the fourteenth this month, with a peak of 15.9C, which was 1.2C below average. This was followed by a cold night when the thermometer dropped to 4.6C at 05.02 Wednesday morning, the coldest night in a fortnight. These lower temperatures were thanks to a cold front having traversed the country and the wind veering into the north west.

Wednesday saw cloud from dawn ahead of another weather front approaching from the west, the thermometer having recite to 8.3C at 08.00, the coldest morning at that time since 10th May.

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