Sunday gave us bright sunshine from mid-morning until mid-afternoon that resulted in the temperature rising slowly to a peak of 14.1C at 14.28 being exactly equal to my long-term average, thereafter cloud built up again. The day was dry although a small area of thicker cloud passed to the northwest of Marlborough that gave some raindrops on my windscreen as I approached the north of Swindon at 18.50. The thick cloud overnight produced a mild night with the minimum of 9.5C at 05.43 being a significant 5.5C above my long-term average.
Monday after dawn revealed very dull, gloomy conditions with almost a total calm. We are under the influence of the recent depression, now heading towards the east, that is throwing considerable cloud over the UK. These conditions will only worsen as we approach midday when two weather fronts pass over central England that over the next few hours might produce a little light rain or drizzle, but of no real quantity. The breeze, when it picks up, will be light and veer from the southwest to west towards the afternoon.
The temperature at 08.00 read 10.2C making it the warmest start to a new day, at that time, this month. The barometric pressure of 1007.9mb at 08.00 is almost exactly the same as yesterday.
A new area of low pressure is developing to the northwest that will close in towards Wednesday, with possible useful rainfall for gardeners!
Two days ago the station recorded an alleged peak wind speed of 62mph. Sadly, with all the progress in electronics these glitches seem to appear occasionally. I could interrogate my older station, that was not on line, to delete these gross errors. Although Davis instruments have been advised by a number of people about the situation, they have yet to come up with a solution that would allow such errors to be removed, such is progress!
The forecast Jet Steam track suggests that it will begin to loop to the north of the UK from Thursday allowing a ridge of high pressure to form. This should bring brighter, perhaps sunnier weather, which will mean it should become a little warmer than at the start of the week.