A warm front that crossed the area on Thursday morning slowly lifted the temperature to reach a peak of 10.4C at 15.13. This was produced by a weather front associated with a depression to the west of the UK and brought the warmest day since 20th February but still 0.2C below the 39-year average. The rise in temperature saw a steady thaw of the lying snow so that by evening it had all but disappeared.
As the depression slowly moved eastwards the wind swung into the north and brought much cooler weather after 23.00 that saw a low of 0.6C at 06.30 on Friday. The change in wind direction brought another weather front that saw the precipitation change into snow at 06.30 and continue until 08.00. The daily precipitation amounted to 13.2mm making it the wettest day since 13th January (22.8mm) and took the monthly total to 33.6mm, being 57% of the 39-year average.