Monday was again a great summer day with another 14 hours of strong sunshine and the thermometer, late in the afternoon, peaking at 28,6C, being 8C above average.
It was also a very calm day with the strongest gust of wind just 10mph.
Overnight the highest of my two anemometers was again tied up with gossamer threads and needed freeing this morning as the wind had dropped out completely for several hours.
The thermometer fell to its lowest at 06.06 the morning with a reading of 12.4C being 1C above the 34-year average.
Tuesday arrived with the first signs of a change in our weather as thin, high, variable cloud partially obscured the sun after dawn. This was the advance sign of a weather front, weakening as it crosses the country. Strong sunshine started the recorded half an hour later than yesterday and was intermittent.
The thermometer had recovered to 17.7C at 08.00.
Update at 13.40: I suspect temperature of 25.7C recorded at 12.39 will be maximum today with cloud increasing as storms are currently crossing the channel reaching southern coastal areas and moving northward.
Update at 16.20: maximum temperature of 26.5C at 16.03 as the line of storms, having crossed the coast, initially moving northwards, then began to track northeastward, as has so often happened in the past, finally dissipating. As a consequence the cloud began to thin again allowing stronger sunshine to return lifting the temperature.