The southwesterly breeze on Friday meant a very mild day that saw the thermometer rise to 10.3C at 13.03, which was 2.3C above the average. The temperature then fell lowly to a minimum of 6.7C just after midnight at 00.30 before rising again as the next weather band arrived, lifting to 9.4C at 08.00 on Saturday.
Rain began to fall from the latest depression at 02.40 that had accumulated 16.3mm by 08.00 on Saturday taking the month rainfall total 50.3mm being 54% of the 39-year average,
Saturday began dark and very wet again as the back end of the very wide rain band crossed the area with rain still falling steadily at 08.00.The centre of the depression is over northern Ireland and moving across Scotland with a centre low of 998mb. Our pressure reading at 08.00 was 992.1mb, the lowest since the 10th December.
