The tail of Storm Isha on Monday brought very gusty winds from the west with a peak of 33mph and mild temperatures. The maximum of 9.3C was 2.2C above my 40-year average whilst although the thermometer dropped away to 4.1C at 04.35 in the early hours of Tuesday that was also above average +2.9C. A daily rainfall total of 1.1mm took the monthly total to exactly 80.0mm being 9.6mm below my 40-year average.
Tuesday struggled to come into life being very dark and dull with thick, low cloud ahead of Storm Jocelyn. More continuous rain began to fall at 07.50. The temperature has lifted a couple of degrees to 6.9C at 08.00.
The centre of Storm Jocelyn was just west of Scotland overnight with a very low centre pressure of 969mb, however as it approaches the north of Scotland today the depression will continue to deepen with a forecast centre pressure of 962mb resulting in strong winds and much rain although the worst will be to the north of our area. At 08.00 the barometric pressure here was 1022.4mb but is falling rapidly as Storm Jocelyn approaches.