The high on Tuesday of 12.3C, logged at 15.17, was the first above average maximum since the 10th being +1.6C. This increase in warmth was very welcome and due to the wall-to-wall sunshine, although in the brisk easterly breeze it still felt chilly. The past night, under clear skies and little breeze to stir up the air mass, gave us 5 hours of freezing conditions from 01.57 to 06.53 early Wednesday producing another air frost, but not severe, with a minimum of -0.8C at 05.59.
By 08.00 on Wednesday the sun had got to work over the previous hour so that by 08.00 the thermometer had risen to 3.9C between broken cloud. Today will give us a sunny morning but more cloud is forecast to drift up from the south to give us weaker sunshine in the afternoon.
A significant change in the wind direction to southeast today will continue the increase in warmth, so outside it will feel very much warmer than previous days.
The high pressure is still fending off the advances of the deep depression just off the coast of Iberia. The barometric pressure has fallen another 3mb since yesterday, but down 5mb since the high on Sunday.
The equivalent loss of rainfall through evaporation from ground sources and plant life rose to 2.4mm over the past twenty-four hours. This was the greatest loss since 18th September under the continuous sunshine, brisk wind and increased warmth. There is a possibility of some rain on Saturday but the forecast of quantities is not confident at this time.