Monday was a day best forgotten as it rained for almost every hour of daylight, light and broken in the morning but heavier in the late afternoon, especially at 19.49 when the rate of fall was equivalent to 55mm/hour, briefly. The daily rainfall total was 7.7mm that took the monthly total to 58.1mm, just 1.8mm below my 40-year average.
Not surprisingly, the daytime temperature was depressed with the thermometer struggling to reach a maximum of 17.4C late afternoon at 16.00 exactly, which was a significant 5.4C below my 40-year average. The thick cloud overnight once again limited any warmth escaping into the atmosphere so that the thermometer did not sink below 11.5C being just 0.4C below my average.
Tuesday brought a very pleasant start to a new day with much broken sunshine after sunrise but just before 07.00 the cloud began to build and shortly after that there was total cloud cover. This cloud cover was and is thanks to the recent depression, currently over East Anglia, that is throwing a sheet of cloud and showers over the Midlands that could arrive here as the day progresses, but minimal rainfall. The wind direction has changed again, thanks to the depression relocating, and will come from a mainly westerly or northwesterly direction later this afternoon.