After considerable rainfall during the past two days another substantial fall occurred from 22.00 Sunday night, after showers earlier in the morning, that totalled 15.6mm. That additional precipitation took the monthly total to 85.5mm, which is still 4.2mm below the 38-year average.
The sun came out on sunday after the rain band had cleared that lifted the temperature to 17.7C being 3.1C above the average due to the continued flow of warm air, the wind having backed a few degrees into the southeast.
Once again we have enjoyed another mild night with a low of 11.1C at 07.45 Monday being 3.6C above the average.
Monday started dull from the hang-back of cloud from the latest weather front but shortly after 08.15 the sun began to beak through, if weakly, but there was a promise of stronger sunshine with the pressure beginning to build again. The lowest barometric pressure this month occurred just before midnight with a low of 993.0mb.
The centre of the low pressure is relocating, as a result the wind is veering into the southwest on Monday, still bringing warm air from around the Azores.
The autumnal images this month I took some three years ago in Westonbirt Arboretum. October will bring autumn colours from the beech trees in Savernake Forest.