Sunday gave us another day with thick cloud and strong north easterly winds, gusting to 28mph, that restricted the temperatures for a third day.
An indication that the cloud was persistently thick with strong, cool winds giving wind chill was that the thermometer struggled to reach a maximum of only 7.9C at 11.49 when peak temperatures at this time of year are usually late afternoon. That peak was 6.1C below the average with wind chill making it feel more like 4C.
The cloud thinned a little overnight allowing the temperature to fall only 3C to a minimum 4.2C at 06.13 this morning, being 0.5C above average.
At 08.00 on this Monday morning the wind has been increasing again for the last few hours giving a wind chill that makes it feel like 1.2C with the thermometer now reading 4.5C.
As the depression over the continent slowly edged northeastwards the wind backed further, currently from the north, with the change occurring around midnight. The current rain radar indicates that we are likely to miss the heavy rainfall previously forecast for this area with the nearest rain some 20 miles to the east and slowly edging away.
Monday update at 18.30: temperature rose to a high of 10.6C, the warmest day for four days but still 4C below average. Thankfully the strong winds have been abating.
