During the many hours of sunshine on Thursday, especially during the morning, the thermometer rose to 17.9C mid-afternoon being 3.3C above the average. Interesting that the first six days of this month have seen a variation in the maxima of just 0.5C. The breeze continued from the southwest.
The past night was also well above average (+3.0C) with a minimum of 10.3C.
Friday arrived with some brightness although mainly a cloudy sky. The barometric pressure has started two wain as a depression to the north gets closer. The reading at 08.00 was 1021.2mb, a drop of 7mb since this time yesterday.