The large area of rain on Thursday, that approached from the east, slowly separated with the larger area travelling to the north of Marlborough and the smaller to the south. However, at 17.05 the rain radar showed a couple of shower clouds beginning to form just to the east of Marlborough that slowly intensified with prolonged and intense rain just to the north of Marlborough, the Ogbourne area at 18.00, then it edged a little northwards for three hours over the Swindon area. So no rain on Thursday for us but the cloud cover meant the UV level was only Moderate at 3.9.
The maximum of 19.8C was 2.5C above average and the mild night produced a minimum of 10.1C being 3.0C above the average.
Glorious sunshine greeted the new day on Friday as the pressure edged upwards so that at 0800 the thermometer read 14.1C.
