Monday saw glorious sunshine for 7.5 hours. However, the brisk north westerly breeze, gusting to 24mph, pegged back the temperature to a maximum of only 4.8C, which was 2.2C below average but the wind chill meant it felt a couple of degrees colder.
During the late afternoon and early evening the thermometer steadily fell away producing a minimum of -2.8C at 22.38 before rising slowly throughout the night to above freezing at 08.00 today, Tuesday, with a reading of 1.0C.
Tuesday morning arrived with broken cloud and hazy sunshine in still conditions.
The precipitation so far this month, with three days to go, amounts to just 27.5mm, which is only 30% of the 35-year average or a considerable deficit against the average of 64.3mm. Currently it is the fifth driest January since records began in 1984.
Update on Tuesday at 15.35: after morning brightness light rain started just after 14.30 with the maximum temperature of 4.9C at 14.28. Temperature been falling since, currently reading 3.6C and still falling.
Update at 16.46: rain now turned to snow with temperature currently just 2.2C.
Update at 18.05: snow ceased with 1-2cm lying snow although less remaining on roads as weather front eases away eastwards. Temperature currently 1.0C.
