After a wet start on Saturday, that brought anther 2.7mm of rainfall, there was some afternoon sunshine that lifted the thermometer to 13.3C being 3.1C above the 39-year average. With clearing skies in the evening the temperature began to drop steadily to reach a minimum of 3.3C (0.6C below average) at 23.46 before the thermometer did an about turn and then began to rise reaching 7.0C at 08.00 on Sunday.
Sunday brought glorious sunshine after dawn with minimal cloud. The wind changed direction overnight to come today from the northwest and then west, a cooler direction but drier direction, due to the depression having moved off into the North Sea. The humidity at 08.00 was 94%, the lowest at that time since 18th October. The pressure at 08.00 read 980.2mb, the highest for two days, but relatively low even for the autumn time.
The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm read 6.7C at 08.00, the lowest since 25th April. Day and nighttime temperatures have been falling away for a couple of months as autumn progresses towards winter.
