The Azores High reached its highest pressure, maximum of 1032.4mb, on Friday bringing the settled, sunny but cool northeasterly breeze. The breeze remained brisk all day with a peak gust of 21mph at 11.47.The thermometer reached a peak of 20.3C, being 3.2C abject the average. The past night was the coolest for a week with a low of 6.1C at 04.53 early on Saturday.
So far this month, the past twelve consecutive dry days have been the driest period since February
In the early hours cloud rolled in from the North Sea so Saturday dawned dull and gloomy. However, just before 08.00 some brightness was observed and just after 08.15 bursts of weak sunshine pierced the thinning cloud cover. Due to the overnight low cloud the humidity at 08.00 was 92%, the highest for a fortnight, after the low of 76% on Tuesday.