With very light air movement from the south and 7.84 hours of sunshine, the thermometer rose to a maximum of 15.8C on Saturday. This was a significant 8.4C above average and the warmest day since 21st October.
With no further rain the total for February still stands at 61.4mm, just 3.5mm short of the 35-year average.
With clear skies overnight it was not surprising to watch the temperature slowly fall during the evening and to find the minimum of -0.2C was set at 07.30 this morning, Sunday. This low was 1.2C below average.
Sunday morning saw the sun shine brightly as soon as it got up, that by 08.00 lifted the temperature above freezing with a reading of 0.9C.
Update on Sunday at 17.20: another unusually warm February day with a maximum of 15.6C being 8.5C above average in calm conditions with the strongest air movement all day reaching just 9mph.