Highest UV level since October

After a very sunny start on Thursday large shower clouds interrupted the strong sunshine at intervals. There were two sharp showers, the first starting just before 10am and the second almost twelve hours later when the total precipitation amounted to 1.2mm.

The strong sunshine totalled 4.9 hours within which the UV level rose to 1.5, not seen since 30th October last year.

The thermometer rose steadily to a maximum of 7.9C at 12.34 and a minimum this morning at 06.13 with a reading of -0.1C, The rainfall during the late evening meant moist air and wet ground that this morning with just a light frost gave the impression of a very much harder frost.

From dawn this morning the sun was up triggering the sunshine recorder at 08.01, which needs a strength of 100 watts/m to spring into action.

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