Temperatures down again

The maxima over the past four days has seen the result of the slow change from southerly winds to a colder easterly with 14.2C, 14.1C, 11.5C and 10.1C on Saturday, which was almost exactly average.

The blue skies yesterday resulted in 5.34 hours of sunshine and after zero UV light on Friday, a reading of 0.9 on Saturday.

The clear skies overnight, not surprisingly, gave us the coldest night in the past two weeks with a minimum of 3.1C being 0.5C below average producing briefly a touch of ground frost.

Sunday arrived with thin high cloud and weak sunshine to start the day as barometric pressure builds again centred over Scandinavia with winds now coming from the east or east nor east.

Update on Sunday at 14.25: peak temperature of 9.8C at 13.27 being only second day below average (-0.3C) this month. North easterly wind freshens producing wind chill in that it feels more like 7C than 9C.

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