After a wet start to Friday it dried up in the afternoon with many hours of sunshine that lifted the temperature to a maximum of 20.8C at 15.57, almost exactly that logged on Thursday being 0.6C below my 40-year average. A low f 13.4C at 02.40 very early Saturday was 2.6C above average due to the crud cover that began to produce rain just fate 04.00. The rain in the past twenty-four hours, up to 08.00 Saturday, amounted to 4.2mm taking the monthly total to 29.7mm, now 45% of my 40-year average. The barometric pressure dropped to a low of 997.0mb, the lowest pressure for four months, thanks to Storm Lilian to the north.
Saturday revealed a very wet outlook as two weather fronts are crossing our area that will bring rain until after midday. There is some consolation that the strong winds that were a feature of the last two days have abated.
