Friday brought another wet and windy day with the southwesterly wind gusting to 29mph and hustling along showers from time to time. The thermometer reached 12.6C at 10.28 but then fell back, the lowest high for four days but still 2.0C above the average. The low of 6.6C occurred just after midnight being 4.2C above the average.
The showers produced another 4.2mm of precipitation that took the monthly total 93.8mm being 35mm above the 39-year average also the wettest March since 2018, which was the wettest on record with 130.9mm.
Saturday saw brief intermittent bursts of sunshine between the fast moving clouds. The depression that has lurked to the west of Ireland the past few days moved across the country yesterday and has now joined with a low pressure system over Scandinavia. This has resulted int the wind veering into the west today and by tomorrow is likely to veer further with the wind coming from a northerly quadrant on Sunday.