Wednesday 10th December
Thankfully, we were on the periphery of Storm Bram that although it produced a wet day from associated weather fronts on Tuesday, did not drop huge quantities of rain over our area and the wind speed was modest, this was the result of the centre of the depression being some distance away to the north of Ireland. The stream of moist, warm did give us another very mild day that resulted in the thermometer climbing to a maximum of 13.3C at 14.04 being once again well above the December average at +6.0C. Likewise, the mild air was maintained overnight due to the continuing cloud cover although that broken, so no extensive clear sky. The thermometer fell to a low of 9.1C at 01.19 early Wednesday before rising a fraction to hover around 9.5C for much of the early hours.
It was the third successive day when no UV light triggered the sensor due to the thick, continuous cloud cover.
Wednesday, thankfully, arrived with minimal cloud cover, just thin high cloud, and much brighter than recent gloomy mornings. The barometric pressure reading at 08.00 was 1012.5mb, up 11mb since yesterday.
The modest rise in pressure to the south of the UK is thanks to a very large anticyclone over the Continent and Mediterranean and currently is rising rapidly. This will result in keeping any further weather fronts from crossing the UK in the next two days, as a result there is now a respite from the nine consecutive days when precipitation was recorded. There could be the occasional shower but no extensive precipitation.
Storm Bram was the fourth named storm of the season to hit the UK but B is the second letter in the alphabet, so why back to the letter B again?.
The UK is in a group that consists of the UK’s Met Office, Ireland’s Met Eireann and the Netherlands’s KNMI. Storms are only named when they are expected to have a significant impact in at least one of the countries in a group and are not based on any rainfall or wind speed thresholds. Storm Bram was named by Met Eireann being the first to suffer a major impact from the severe weather associated with the deep depression.
The images leading up to Christmas will be from the Christmas decorations in and around Marlborough High Street and the Green.