Monday saw the thermometer rise above average (+1.6C) with a maximum of 24.3C at 13.09 before intermittent cloud cover increased. Apart from a few spots of rain at 18.30 it was a dry day and the UV level rose into the very high category again.
The cloud cover thickened overnight from the advancing depression, which meant it acted as a duvet to minimise heat loss into the atmosphere resulting in a mild night with the thermometer not falling below 15.4C, which was 3.6C above the 35-year average.
Rain started to fall just after 06.00 on Tuesday morning as the depression slowly moved eastwards giving just 0.4mm by 08.00.
The rain total for July currently stands at 35.6mm with the loss of moisture into the atmosphere through evaporation now equivalent to 103mm of rainfall.
The barometric pressure has been falling for the past twenty-four hours indicating the approach of the depression so that by 08.00 Tuesday the reading of 1001.9mb was the lowest this month.
Update on Tuesday at 17.45: rainfall since 08.00 to current time amounted to 14.8mm making it the wettest day since 10th June (25.1mm). A cool day due to thick cloud and hours of rainfall with maximum only 18.9C, which was 3.8C below average.
