Friday brought brief interludes of sunshine between a rash of showers, that covered the south of England, bringing 3.0mm of precipitation. As a result of the reduced sunshine the thermometer only reached a peak of 17.8C but this was still 0.6C above the average. The wind had moved into the south and was much lighter than the previous day with a peak gust of only 19mph.
The past night was almost identical to the previous night with total cloud cover and a minimum of 11.2C being 4.5C above the 39-year average.
Saturday dawned gloomy under a thick veil of cloud as a depression began to travel up the English Channel with associated weather fronts that produced the first spots of rain at 06.50 but more continuous rain just before 08.00. The temperature at 08.00 was 11.9C making it the warmest start a day at that time since 11th November.