Although we only has 2.9 hours of sunshine on Sunday the warm, moist tropical air, brought to us from mid Atlantic by storm Helene, saw the thermometer rise to a maximum of 21.4C, which was 2.8C above the 34-year average.
Recent days has seen the UV drop consistently into the Moderate level.
The southerly breeze was quite strong at times with a peak gust fo 22mph.
It was another dry day during daylight hours but just before dawn today thick cloud brought drizzle that amounted to just 0.2mm.
Monday arrived with the low cloud draping the Marlborough Downs blocking out all possibility of sunshine. However, the blanket of cloud and tropical air has given us the warmest start to a day since 21st August as the thermometer did not fall below 16.4C, which was 7.1C above average.
It is interesting to note that there has been a considerable 8.6C variation in the soil temperature, at a depth of 5cm, between the 13th and today with 8.C and 16.9C respectively, currently the warmest it has been since 23rd August (18.4C).
Monday update at 16.10: ‘Helene’ brings back summer with a maximum of 22.8C at 15.12 being 4.2C above average. Over the last four hours the southerly wind has been increasing in strength with the strongest gust of 21mph at 16.09 as the depressed approaches and the barometric pressure falls to its lowest this month with a current reading of 1010.4mb.