There’s a chill in the air!

The air stream on Saturday came predominantly from the north, a cool direction, so no surprises that the maximum of 6.5C was below my 40-year average (-0.6C). Although there was a little sunshine around midday the sun is weak at this time of the year so had minimal influence on the temperature. The UV level was 0.5, bottom of the ‘Low’ category. Late evening the thermometer hovered around 2C to 3C but in the early hours fell away to a low at 08.00 of 1.4C just 0.1C above my 40-year average.

Sunday revealed a sky with broken cloud, varying, but perhaps six eighths.

The high pressure system extending from the Arctic to Portugal and into the east as far as Russia, has become well established with a pressure reading of 1027.9mb at 08.00, the highest since 18th December, and an increase of 11mb since Saturday. As result the wind will come mainly from the nor-nor east, rather than north as on Saturday, and be brisk resulting in a minor windchill. The air temperature at 08.00 was 1.4C but outside it felt more like -1C.

The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm had dropped to 2.4C at 08.00, the highest this month was 8.9C on the 2nd.

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