On Monday we were still in the warm, moist air from the Atlantic that pushed the thermometer to 10.9C being 2.8C above my 40-year average. Likewise overnight with a low of 8.3C, some 6.7C above my 40-year average. A little rain triggered the automatic rain gauge at 05.30 and 07.00 that amounted to 0.5mm in the Met Office 5″ copper rain gauge.
There were glimpses of weak sunshine first thing on Tuesday, in a brief break of the cloud to the east of our area, but soon lost in a totally cloudy sky. The warm, moist Atlantic air will maintain the above average temperature during daylight hours. The anticyclone that has dominated our weather for the past week has been slipping away and we are now under the influence of low pressure to the north with a reading of 1011.4mb at 08.00, down 23mb since the start of the month.
A cold front is slowly moving down the country today and will cross our area late afternoon when heavy rain will arrive for a few hours. As the cold front leaves the south of England just before midnight, the cold air behind it will bring a major drop in the temperature as the wind backs from the west, where it will have been for most of the day, into the north, heralding a significant change from our recent weather pattern.
