The maximum of 11.7C at 15.06 on Friday was the lowest maximum for a week but still 1.1C above my 40-year average due to the brisk wind from the northwest. It felt cold outside thanks to a modest windchill, however, it was dry. Not surprisingly with the wind from that direction, to see that the thermometer dropped away to a low of 2.9C at 04.25 early Saturday, that produced a slight ground frost but obviously no air frost and the coldest night for a week.
Glorious sunshine greeted the start of Saturday that had lifted the thermometer to 5.8C at 08.00. The wind today will continue from a northwesterly quadrant, however, although the air is cooler it is much drier as a humidity reading at 08.00 of 84% indicated,, the lowest since 20th January. The depression is currently off the Norwegian coast and not moving far today so the wind will continue from the west-northwest or north-west later. The barometric pressure has seen a further drop of 5mb since Friday as the depression gets closer.
