It was a delight to see the sun again yesterday with 2.43 hours after so many dull and overcast days.
The thermometer hovered around 5 – 6C for most of the day and rose again in the evening to a maximum of 7.2C as the next weather front and associated cloud arrived.
Rain began lightly early afternoon and intensified early evening. However, the maim rain and snow fell later in the night producing 21.2mm of precipitation, consisting mostly of rain but sleet and driven wet snow. This was the wettest day since 11th July. It was not possible to get an accurate depth of level snow due to the strong winds, but it was up to 3cm deep where it had drifted.
The wind gained strength in the early hours with gusts regularly from 30- 40 mph and a peak gust of 41mph at 05.25 this morning. During the course of twenty-four hours the wind backed from southwest to southeast and after midnight came from the north.
The back edge of the weather front meant that precipitation stopped just after 07.30 with the cloud thinning. The thermometer had recovered to 1.3C at 08.00 after a minimum of 0.6C was reached at 03.51 this morning. The wind chill with 40mph winds and temperatures of 1C meant it felt more like -4.3C.