Thursday was another depressing day with much cloud and frequent showers that included small hail. This brought the March total to 115.0mm, which is a record for this station started in 1984. The previous wettest March was in 2001 with 113.7mm.
The brisk southeasterly wind and little sunshine, just half an hour all day, pegged back the temperature to a maximum of just 7.0C that occurred in the early evening at 18.00, which was 3.5C below the March average.
During the evening there were intermittent clear skies that let the thermometer drop to 1.1C at 06.53 this morning, causing a very slight ground frost for a short while.
Friday has dawned dull and wet with light rain starting again at 07.40.
Friday update at 12.00: temperature of 5.9C but bitter north easterly wind makes wind chill, so it feels like 4C. Drizzle now turning to light rain.
Friday update at 16.30: temperature just 5.2C with wind chill making it feel like 2C and maximum temperature only 6.6C at 13.48, which was 4C below average. Five hours of continuous rain and much more to come.
Friday 22.00: what a dreadful day? 10 hours of continuous rain bringing in excess of another 11mm of rainfall and current temperature of 3.1C due to wind backing into northwest.