After six consecutive days with rainfall yesterday was a dry day. After a cloudy morning there were 4.6 hours of strong sunshine as the afternoon progressed that made it the warmest day since 18th July with a maximum of 21.1C, still below average (1C) for July.
We enjoyed a glorious evening with much strong sunshine but the clear skies overnight meant another very cool night. The thermometer fell to a low of 8.9C just after 5am, being 3C below the July average.
There was limited sunshine after dawn but by 7am the cloud rolled in obscuring the sun. However, the temperature had recovered to 13.1C at 08.00.
The changeable weather of recent days has been caused by the Jet Stream being rather too far south thus directing depressions and their associated winds and rain over the UK.
