Once again the temperature built quickly during Sunday morning that by 12.00 was within 1C of the maximum of 23.7C logged at 13.28. Variable cloud was observed arriving just before 12.00 that thickened during the afternoon hence the maximum was early rather than late afternoon. The clearer skies overnight produced a cool night that saw the thermometer drop to a minimum of 9.9C at 06.13 early Monday that almost coincided with sunrise in Marlborough at 06.08, being 1.3C below average.
Monday gave us a fine start to the new day with strong sunshine shortly after sunrise that had lifted the temperature to 15.3C by 08.00. The large area of high pressure, that had dominated our weather for a week, has slipped further east and as a result, during yesterday and again today, the very light breeze will come from the south carrying with it considerable warmth from the hot Continent. This will be the last of the hot dry days before we come under the influence of the depression edging towards the UK.
The remains of ex-hurricane Erin, now a depression, has a current deep centre barometric pressure of 961mb and is closing in on the UK that by Tuesday will see the depression between Scotland and Iceland. The low pressure system will likely throw a weather front across the country early Tuesday that could produce some rain, amount not certain at this time. It will be Wednesday before we come fully under the influence of the depression with cooler temperatures, windy conditions and showery activity.
The tropical storm named Erin, that formed off the west coast of Africa, deepened significantly before drifting northwest, to the north of the Caribbean, and was then caught up in the Jet Stream before being driven northeast across the Atlantic towards the UK.
The summer images over the next couple of weeks will be from Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, an archipelago comprising 4 islands off the northwest coast of Africa.