After a bright start to Sunday, with a maximum of 24.8C being 4.6C above the average, clouds began to build late afternoon. At 18.50 the first spots of rain appeared that was followed by two hours of continuous rain amounting to 15.1mm. This was the wettest day since 8th May (16.4mm) and took the monthly total to 30.3mm, which is 24mm below the 39-year average. The rain was very welcome by gardeners being steady and modest in strength. The storm cells arrived from the south and lingered over the area and intensified as initially the rain radar indicated that the nearest cell would pass over in a few minutes.
The residual warmth and cloud cover meant a mild night with the thermometer not dropping below 12.4C at 05.04 Monday, which was 2.3C above the average.
Monday dawned cloudy and misty after the considerable rainfall. The thermometer had recovered to 16.2C at 08.00. The barometric pressure was at its lowest all month yesterday at 1009.6mb and recovered 1mb overnight.