Friday, under many hours of strong sunshine, saw the thermometer climb to a maximum of 22.8C, which was 8.8C above average and the warmest day since 17th September. This is the result of the high pressure still over southern Scandinavia bringing warm air from Central Europe on a modest breeze, maximum gust of 17mph.
The barometric pressure has risen a little higher again with a current reading of 1031.0mb, the highest for almost a month.
A very cool night was to follow, under clear skies, that allowed the warmth to escape into the atmosphere and the temperature to fall to a. minimum of 3.6C.
The sun shone strongly as soon as it crossed the horizon on Saturday morning with the promise of another very warm day with a reading of 10.7C at 08.00.
Update on Saturday at 20.10: thermometer eased upwards again to a maximum of 23.1C at 16.41, which was 9.1C above average.