The maximum temperature has dropped for six consecutive days with a peak of 7.3C on Monday, which was 2.7C below the 34-year average. However, for most of the day the windchill meant it felt 3C lower than that shown on the thermometer. The successive maxima for the last six days are: 14.2C, 14.1C, 11.5C, 10.1C, 9.8C, 7.3C.
There were a couple of very light showers during the daytime that just damped the ground but not sufficient to measure, thus logged as a ‘trace’.
The northeasterly winds on Monday gusted frequently over 20mph with a peak gust of 30mph at 08.26. Overnight the strength dropped a little but has been increasing again over the last few hours.
Tuesday has seen the continuation of strong northeasterlies and continuous cloud cover with a minimum of 3.5C at 00.11. At 08.00 the thermometer read 4.2C but wind chill meant that this felt more like 0.5C.
Update on Tuesday at 13.50: maximum temperature of 5.1C reached at 11.21 before thicker cloud and light rain blown across on the strong northeaterlies, gusting to 26mph. Current temperature of 4.3C with wind chill making it feel more like 1C.