A brief return of summer on Tuesday saw the temperature climb to 23.8C being 1.2C above the average. It felt very warm in the strong sunshine between the cloudier periods especially with very light winds, a maximum gust of 13mph was very low. The past night was very cool as it saw the thermometer drop steadily away, under clear skies, to a minimum of 9.3C, which was 2.5C below the average. This was only the fourth dry day in August.
The ridge of high pressure has built further over the past twenty-four hours with a reading of 1021.7mb at 08.00 and climbing.
Tuesday dawned with sunshine after it got up that lifted the temperature to 17.0C at 08.00. As the high pressure relocated the wind has veered from the west yesterday to northeast today.