Friday produced many fewer showers than the almost continuous rain on Thursday, in fact after the two heavy showers in the morning there was no rain after 12.50, that allowed intermittent sunshine to breakthrough as the clouds thinned and cleared. As a result of the improvement after midday the maximum occurred at 14.30 with a peak of 12.2C being 1.6C above my 40-year average.The daily rainfall total of 3.3mm took the monthly rainfall total to 114.6mm or 187% of my 40-year average.
Thanks to the clearing skies overnight the temperature dropped away steadily to reach a minimum of 2.3C at 06.10, just before the sun arose. In fact that low allowed radiation fog to form in the River Ogg valley, which disappeared shorty after 06.3o only to be replaced with a bank of fog drifting in from the Kennet valley, however that had almost cleared by 07.10.
Initially Friday brought weak sunshine through the fog but after that had cleared we were greeted by strong, continuous sunshine.
The deep depression that was named Storm Nelson has developed into two less intense areas of low pressure that have been pulling away west into mid-Atlantic. As a result the barometric pressure has been rising steadily with the isobars, lines of equal pressure, opening out so Saturday will be a much quieter day with much sunshine. This will also see a change in the wind direction from south-southwest to southeast later today and be much calmer than of late.
