The glorious sunshine on Saturday lifted the thermometer to 14.8C at 13.54, being 4.2C above my 40-year average, before increasing broken cloud limited the sun. However it was a dry day, only the tenth this month. The low overnight of 3.8C at 04.29 was also above average (+1.3C), only the ninth this month.
Sunday revealed weak broken sunshine half an hour after dawn thanks to a bank of cloud low on the eastern horizon and then thin variable cloud limited restricted full sun.
Not only has the deep depression moved back west into the Atlantic but it has continued to fill having increased over 33mb since the minimum on Thursday. The barometric pressure in Marlborough at 08.00 was 994.4mb, a rise of almost 20mb over the three days. As a result of the rise in pressure, Sunday will be a quieter day than of late although with restricted sunshine thanks to variable cloud and thus not as warm as Saturday. The result of the low pressure systems relocating has meant the breeze on Sunday will come from the east, rather than the south, as for the previous three days, dragging cloud in from its traverse across the North Sea.
