Sunday began with rain starting just after 6am and continuing for 12 hours producing 17.3mm, the wettest day for almost a month bringing the January total to 56.2mm, still 36mm below the 34-year January average. The heaviest rain fell in bursts between 15.15 and 15.45 at an equivalent rate of 14mm per hour. The previous higher total was 21.2mm on 26th December.
The other notable feature was the temperature, which read 1.2C at 08.00 on Sunday and remained a little above freezing until early afternoon. Just before 15.00 there was a steady, significant rise to 10.3C at 19.25, some 3.5C above the January average maximum as the wind veered from the southeast into the southwest bringing a milder air mass.
Although for much of the day the wind was light, during the evening there were stronger gusts with a peak of 23mph recorded at 21.08.
As the thick cloud thinned a little in the early hours of today, the thermometer fell back to 7.0C at 08.00. It is currently dry and a little brighter as the very wide rain band from yesterday sinks away to the southeast.