The flow of warm, moist air combined with strong sunshine in the late afternoon on Monday raised the temperature to a maximum of 26.2C at 17.02, which was exactly 6C above average. It was also the warmest day since 7th August 2018.
It was a dry day with the UV level again in the ‘very high’ category. There was very little wind, a maximum air movement, cannot call it a gust of wind, of just 9mph on one occasion.
A very warm night was to follow when the thermometer did not fall below 16.2C, which was 6.1C above average and the warmest night since 13th October 2018.
Steady rain began to fall this morning, Tuesday, just after 02.00 with, after a short break, a longer spell of steady rain from 04.00 petering out just after 08.00. The rainfall for the past twenty-four hours amounted to 5.5mm bringing the monthly total to 69.8mm, which is 131% of the 35-year average. We have been fortunate that the recent ‘downpours’ have passed to the west and east again.
At 08.00 on Tuesday morning the rain had virtually stopped from the hang back of heavy cloud from the weather front in very still conditions.