With showers on and off during daylight hours and overnight it was not surprising to find that yet again the maximum of 16.9C, that occurred early on the day at 10.15, was 3.7C below my 40-year average. After a bright start cloud built up after mid-morning limiting sunshine to brief bursts. The minimum of 8.4C occurred at 05.15 early Saturday that was also below average at -1.8C.
The daily rainfall amounted to 7.9mm.
Saturday began bright after dawn with good sunshine but cloud was observed arriving from the west that began to weaken the sunshine by 06.20 and totally obscure the sun from 06.40. Rain began to fall at 06.55.
The reason for this unseasonably cool and wet weather lies at the door of the low pressure system that has been plaguing us for two days and has moved closer to us. The barometric pressure read 998.6mb at 08.00, the lowest for two months and will produce a breeze from the southwest or west-southwest.
