Saturday brought us the last of the very sunny days with 9.6 hours of sunshine and the warmest day since 28th August with a maximum of 24.9C, being 6.3C above average, thanks to the last of the Mediterranean air brought on a southeasterly breeze.
The barometric pressure has been steadily falling away for the last two days as the high pressure that has been with is for over. week eased further away to the west and the effects of a depression arrived from the Atlantic. The first signs of this could be seen late Saturday afternoon as thin cloud drifted in from the west.
Overnight the first of the rain bands brought 6.8mm of rainfall between 3 and 5am accompanied by thunder at 3 and 3.25am. It was a very mild night with a minimum of 14.6C, which was 5.4C above average thanks to the last of the Mediterranean air.
Sunday started with a little brightness as the first rain band eased away to the east but the cloud cover soon thickened as a more intense rain band approached from the south west. The barometric pressure at 08.00 had dropped to 1001.4mb, the lowest pressure since the 10th August.