Thursday was an exceptionally mild day with warmth that originated from Iberia that pushed the thermometer to 12.1C, the second warmest day this month being 5C above my 40-year record. Overnight that warmth drained away into the atmosphere thanks to clearing skies after two cold front passed our way in the early hours of Friday dropping 2.8mm of precipitation that took the monthly rainfall total to 90.0mm exactly being just 0.4mm above my 40-year average. The minimum of 5.1C occurred at 07.58 Friday
Friday dawned clear with sunshine as soon as it rose above the horizon. A ridge of high pressure, pressure reading at 08.00 of 1026.1mb, sees the barometric pressure rising rapidly this morning that will mean a calmer day but cooler as the wind backs from northwest to west then southwest later in the day. The northwesterly breeze to start the day is a drier air with a humidity reading of 83% at 08.00, the second lowest this month.
The thermometer dropped further to 4.7C by 08.17 before the sun got to work.
