After a cloudy start on Thursday the sun began to get to work on the cloud that had drifted in on the brisk north east wind so that by 08.00 the sun shone strongly producing 12.7 hours during the rest of the day. The warm, moist air and the sunshine boosted the temperature to a maximum of 23.8C at 16.50, which was 3.6C above the 35-year average. It was not the strongest sunshine that we have experienced this month as very thin, high cloud slightly muted the strength with higher peak solar radiation on several earlier days this month.
The brisk north easterly wind blew strongly all day, slightly easing in the afternoon, but with peak gust of 25mph at 12.03. The wind abated just a little overnight but on Friday morning there was little change with the 10 minute average wind speed down to 8 mph rather than 9 or 10 mph as on Thursday.
Friday began as Thursday with cloud cover brought in on the north easterly breeze but this dispersed by 07.30 so that the minimum of 11.4C had risen to 14.2C at 08.00.
Update on Friday at 16.25: temperature slowly rose to a maximum of 25.3C at 16.12 being 5.1C above average and the third warmest day in June. Previously 25.6C and 26.2C on the 1st and 24th respectively. Very, warm and humid as the wind slowly abated.