Lowest barometric pressure since September 2014

After a rapid fall in barometric pressure over 12 hours yesterday the lowest pressure registered was 984.7mb just after 0200 this morning.
The intense depression also brought extremely heavy rainfall between 0130 and 0300 producing a daily total of 16.2mm, which is the highest daily total since September 18th 2014. Half way through January the monthly total for rainfall is now 76mm, which is 83% of the long-term average for the whole month.
A peak wind gust was measured at 40mph during the evening.

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