Thursday was much as Wednesday and Tuesday with modest hours of sunshine and dry but the strong northeasterly persisted, gusting to 33mph, the strongest gust since the 13th.
The many hours of sunshine lifted the temperature steadily to a peak of 14.4C, which was just 0.3C above the average. The sunshine disappeared early evening as cloud from the next weather front eased in from the east and produced a little rain from 2000 to 2030 amounting to 0.3mm.
The cloud from the weather front limited the temperature fall overnight with a minimum of 5.0C being 1.3C above the average.
Friday dawned dull and grey with another weather front crossing the area and rain threatening from mid-morning. The wind continues from the northeast but is forecast to veer into the southeast as the afternoon progresses. However. The temperature of 6.2C at 0800 felt more like 5C due to wind chill. A change is afoot as the pressure has dropped considerably in the last twenty-four hours with a reading of 1014.2mb at 0800, down 10 mb since yesterday.