The southwesterly breeze brought milder air with the thermometer rising to 22.3C on Sunday, just 0.3C below average. This mild, moist air continued overnight producing a very mild night with a minimum just before midnight of 15.3C, which was 3.5C above average, the warmest night since 25th June and up 5C on the previous night minimum.
Monday arrived with complete cloud cover blotting out any chance of sunshine, the thermometer having risen further to 18.3C at 08.00.
The barometric pressure has been rising over the past two days, current reading of 1021.1mb, as the ridge of high pressure intensifies with the promise of more warm/hot, dry weather.
Update on Monday at 16.20: thermometer rose to 25.6C at 16.05 making it the second warmest day in July being 2.9C above average. Humidity very high at around 70% for most of the day.
