Another of the gloomy days on Saturday, sunless and no UV light registered. The thermometer struggled to a maximum of 5.8C being 1.2C below average in the cool south easterly breeze gusting to 16mph.
Overnight the temperature dropped to -1.1C just before dawn with fog having formed.
Sunday dawned with thick fog in evidence with visibility limited to 100m due to the slack pressure gradient that meant still wind conditions. By 08.40 the fog had thinned with visibility increased to 500m.
Update on Sunday at 15.10: after morning frost the thermometer slowly rose to a maximum of just 3.8C at 12.53, which was 4.2C below the January average. Sun slowly thinned morning fog to break through strongly just after noon with over five hours of strong sunshine.
