Wednesday was a miserable day with the showers coming thick and fast producing almost continuous rain or drizzle until late afternoon when there was a break allowing 50 minutes of sunshine to lift the temperature to a maximum of 10.3C at 17.23, being 3.5C below the April average.
Rainfall amount was 6.1mm bringing the total for April to 29.7mm, which occurring in the first four days of the month was over half the 34-year average.
With the depression easing eastwards as the day progressed the cloud thinned early evening to allow the thermometer to drop slowly overnight to a minimum of 3.2C at dawn, just below the April average.
Glorious sunshine appeared as soon as the sun rose above the horizon and with blue skies under the ridge of high pressure, we are promised a sunny day.
Thursday update at 14.00: 7 hours of continuous strong sunshine to 14.00, with much more to come from the temporary ridge of high pressure. Temperature is currently 10.4C and edging higher that with light winds make it a pleasant spring day.
Thursday update at 19.00. 10 hours of sunshine today, the sunniest day since 28th August.