Friday produced another summer’s day with 8 hours of strong sunshine, mostly in the morning. The thermometer rose to a maximum of 25.4C (3C above average) at 12.55 which was 4C down on Thursdays maximum. Shorty after midday thin cloud started to partly obscure the strength of the sun, hence the maximum at this time of day rather than later in the afternoon when the heat usually builds up.
It was another dry day. The evaporation from ground sources and plant life recently has been between 4 and 5mm per day of equivalent rainfall lost to the atmosphere, with the total this month of 28mm, almost equal the rainfall in June.
The thermometer slowly dropped to a minimum of 15.5C overnight making it the warmest night since 22nd June, which was 4C above the July average.
With the ground so dry and high reading 24.6C at 08.00.
This morning brought intermittent sunshine as broken cloud but up after dawn.