A high of 20.1C at 15.45 on Saturday was yet again below average for July at -2.8C, feeling cool at times in the northwesterly air stream that backed into the west later in the day. It ws the coolest night for a week as the thermometer feel steadily away to a low of 8.4C at 0540 on Sunday, which was 3.5C below my 40-year average.
Brilliant sunken greeted the new day on Sunday with radiation fog in the River Og valley but not over the downs. This mist dispersed by 06.45 under the strong sun that hd lifted the temperature to 15.8C by 08.00.
This will be the last dry day, fifth consecutive. The anticyclone has been filling and easing away whilst a depression is forecast to form off the western approaches bringing rain on Monday. The barometric pressure had fallen to 1012.7mb by 08.00 the lowest for four days.
