Sunday saw the continuing effects of ex-tropical storm Ernesto with warm, very moist air, which raised the temperature to a maximum 23.4C at 14.03. This was 2.7C above the 34-year August average.
For many days in June and July the humidity, in the hot, dry weather, dropped to between 40% and 45% during the daytime when on Sunday it did not fall below 73%.
During Sunday night into Monday morning the thermometer did not drop below 16.1C (at 03.36), which was 4.6C above average and the warmest night since 17th July 2017.
Monday arrived with low cloud that settled over the Marlborough Downs obscuring the forests and high ground. By 07.00 it began to thin and by the time readings were taken at 08.00 it had totally cleared although there was total cloud cover.
Update at 16.35: maximum temperature of 23.3C, being 1.3C above average. No rain but a few minutes of drizzle that was not measurable, which is recorded as a ‘trace’.
Update at 22.00: current temperature is 19.3C, just 1.3C below average August maximum.
