Thursday gave us many hours of strong sunshine between the modest sized, fast moving clouds on a westerly breeze gusting to 22mph at its peak. The maximum temperature was again below average with a maximum of 12.8C (-1.3C). However, it was a dry day until a shower arrived at 14.40 and drove me in from the garden. The UV strength was again at the top end of ‘Moderate’.
The clear overnight skies initially saw the thermometer drop away to 2.4C at 03.08, early Friday, then recovering to 5.9C at 08.00 as advancing cloud from the next weather front began to drift across the sky.
Friday dawned dull with light rain. The culprit is another unwanted, unloved low pressure system that is slowly edging along the English Channel throwing up a rain band over southern England. The wind for Friday morning will come from a very different direction than of late, from the southeast, before backing into the north later as the depression eases away over the continent. The past day has brought 0.6mm of precipitation taking the monthly rainfall total to 47.mm, being 83% of the 39-year average,