Sunday was the last of the five consecutive dry days with much sunshine, however, the maximum temperature did not get above my 40-year average with a peak of 21.6C at 17.58 being 1.2C below. It has been a chilly night that saw the thermometer drop to a low of 6.7C at 04.54, which was 5.2C below average. After this time cloud began to filter across and by daybreak was almost continuous.
The temperature had risen to 10.7C by 08.00 as the cloud thickened with the humidity very high reading 98% at that time.
Monday morning saw the clouds continue to thicken ahead of a depression just off the coast of Brittany that will slowly sweep across the UK. The rain radar at 08.00 showed broken shower cloud heading our way but a very ominous, large red area of heavy rain, just crossing Cornwall and Devon, is heading our way, the rain is likely to intensify late afternoon/early evening. The wind will veer from the southeast into the south-southeast and then southwest later today as the depression crosses the UK.
