The fog thinned into mist late morning but it was not until after 13.00 that the sun began to strengthen, the thermometer then rose to 12.6C being 4.6C above the average. This was the warmest day since the 19th December.
Under clear skies the temperature dropped away to -0.7C at 01.51 early on Wednesday producing an air first for a couple of hours. Subsequently the temperature began to rise to reach 3.9C at 0800.
Wednesday arrived with weak sunshine through thin cloud on the eastern horizon. The high pressure system, that has influenced our weather for the past two weeks, is weakening and receding. As a result the barometric pressure has fallen to 1023.8mb at 0800, the lowest pressure since 20th January. Also changing is the wind direction, forecast to come from the southwest today indicating a significant change in our weather.