Turbulent days!

As Storm Brendan began to ease away on Tuesday another deep depression, centred in the western approaches, made itself felt with 16 hours of precipitation and very strong winds.

The first drizzly rain began to fall shortly after 09.30 that continued, with the rain intensifying throughout the day and night, ceasing around 04.15 Wednesday morning. Between 19.30 ad 19.45 Tuesday evening a strong squall arrived with intense rain.

The wind strength during daylight hours was very strong, particularly between 10.00 and 22.00. The peak period was between 11.00 and 20.00 when gusts were often between 30 and 40mph with the maximum gust of 42mph at 14.44.

Rainfall for the past twenty-four hours amounted to 21.6mm bringing the monthly total to 64.7mm when the 35-year average is 90.4mm.

Wednesday arrived with a hang back of cloud from the recent depression but, thankfully, the strong winds abated late evening and currently conditions are very still.

The warm air from the Azores, brought on the south westerly air mass, saw the thermometer rise to a maximum of 12.6C at 15.15, which was 5.6C above the 35-year average. Another mild night followed, due the extensive cloud cover, producing a minimum of 5.9C being 4.8C above the average.

Update: almost three hours of sunshine on Wednesday, what a change from previous days!

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