The ridge of high pressure maintained the very hot and sunny weather on Saturday pushing the temperature to 28.7C at 16.11 being 8.5C above the 39-year average and the second warmest day this month as 29.8C was recorded on the 10th. The UV level peaked at 9.5, which was at the top end of Very High rating and the highest since 7th June 2021.
The past night was warm with. low of 12.9C, which was 2.8C above the average.
Sunday arrived with more sunshine but the barometric pressure has been dropping, 10mb in the past twenty-four hours, 1014.5mb at 08.00, as a depression edges in from the Atlantic and the ridge declines. The wind at 08.00 was from the southeast but due to veer into the west as the morning progresses and as a cold front crosses the country mid-afternoon that will bring more cloud and limit the rise in temperature later today. The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm read 22.1C at 0800, the highest since 15th August 2022.