Sunday 23rd November
Saturday was a thoroughly wet and dismal day although it was a much warmer day. The temperature see-sawed throughout the twenty-four period reaching a high of 8.2C late afternoon at 16.28. By 19.00 the temperature began to ease downwards with a minimum of 3.7C at 01.91, early Sunday, before rising again to reach 8.3C at 08.00 on Sunday. Both the highs and the low were below average for November with -2.0C and -0.3C respectively.
The rain was intermittent all day on Saturday and again into the evening with a drier spell for three hours after midnight. The daily rainfall totalled 14.0mm. The monthly rainfall from my Met Office rain gauge now stands at 118.4mm compared to my 41-year average of 91.8m, thus well above average.
Sunday after first light revealed the back edge of the last of the three weather fronts to cross our area with evidence of a brighter sky to the west. By 08.00 the back end of the weather front had moved eastwards leaving blue sky behind it with the sun just rising above the last cloud on the eastern horizon producing weak sunshine. The clearer skies saw the thermometer drop back to 7.6C by 08.30.
The depression currently to the west of Scotland will drift south across the UK today then east towards the North Sea producing a more cloudy, damp day on Monday.
Monday will bring us more rain as we are firmly in an unsettled period with the flow of Atlantic air, so warmer but a more moist airflow. Tuesday will bring us the best day of the coming week, under a northwesterly breeze, as a temporary ridge of high pressure edges in and will allow welcome sunshine. The downside will be a cold night Tuesday into Wednesday, with a possible air frost under the clear sly, however temperatures then will climb again as more cloud drifts in from the Atlantic as the wind backs into a westerly quadrant again.
The picture was taken in the picnic area of Savernake Forest, Marlborough, on such a day as today with blue skies and trees bare of leaves.