Ridge of high pressure still exerting its influence.

Tuesday brought us another welcome 5 hours of sunshine and a dry day. The thermometer edged a little higher than on Monday with a maximum of 9.1C, being 1.3C above average.

It was a dry day with very little wind, a peak gust of just 12 mph was the strongest breeze.

The overnight minimum was 3.5C at dawn, also above average (+1.6C).

Wednesday has arrived with broken cloud and the possibility of limited sunshine for the first part of the morning.

Update on Wednesday at 16.40: south easterly breeze pegs back the temperature to a maximum of 7.2C, which was only the second below average (-0.6C) day this month. Stronger wind meant wind chill a factor making it feel a degree or so below that indicated on the thermometer.

background