Tuesday brought us 3.1 hours of sunshine, the sunniest for almost a week, which lifted the temperature to a maximum of 11.8C being 1.3C above the average. The breeze was light, maximum gust of only 11mph, which made the afternoon very pleasant.
It was a dry day, the first for over a week and the UV level reached 2.3, the highest this month as occurred on Sunday.
Overnight the thermometer initially fell away to a minimum of 2.6C at midnight but during the early hours began to recover so that at 08.00 today the reading was 6.3C.
Wednesday has arrived with broken cloud and brief periods of sunshine.
Wednesday update at 14.15: temperature of 10.3C but wind chill makes it feel like 8C as wind gusts to 30mph.