The dry and warm weather continued over the last twenty-four hours with both maximum of 23.8C and minimum 10.8C above average being +3.6C and + 0.7C respectively.
The ridge of high pressure, reaching from North Africa to Norway, has been building further, now the highest for a week with a reading of 1019.5mb at 08.00 Thursday.
It is mid-summer so no surprises that the UV level of 8.3 was rated Very High and the highest level since 13th July 2022.
Radiation fog greeted Thursday morning with visibility limited to 400m in the River Og and River Kennet Valleys. Just before 07.00 the fog began to roll in from the northeast and was down to 300m before the sun began to break through just before 07.45. BY 08.00 the fog had retreated considerably into misty conditions.