Sunday gave us many hours of warm sunshine that lifted the temperature to 16.5C being 1.9C above average. In fact, only one day this month brought a below average maximum, which was the 14th.
The first rain drops were observed at 17.40, Sunday evening, but did not become heavy until 18.15. Once again a major rain band moved up from the southwest but as it approached our area began to break up with the bulk of the intense rain diverting around our area. Sporadic bursts followed for three hours and amounted to 7.1mm making it the wettest day this month and since 30th September (8.9mm).
It was a mild night with the thermometer not sinking below 13.1C, which was 5.8C above the average.
Monday began with total cloud cover but by 08.00 weak sunshine struggled to breakthrough the hang-back of cloud from the weather front easing eastwards.