Th variable sunshine on Monday was so welcome after the nine gloomy days. The thermometer eventually rose to 11.8C being 1.5C above my long-term average, however, the clearer skies overnight allowed the warmth to dissipate into the atmosphere with the temperature falling away to minimum of 3.7C at 06.44 early Tuesday. It was a dry day and the UV peaked at a reading of 1.0, the highest since 31st October.
Tuesday brought a bright start to the new day as the cloud was high and thin but not totally clear. By 08.00 the thermometer had crept up to 5.1C.
Update at 13.00: the wind from north-northeast is gusting to 18mph and producing a wind chill so that outside it feels more like 7C rather the thermometer temperature of 9.9C.
The new anticyclone has a very high pressure with a reading of 1038.1mb early Tuesday, which is the highest pressure since 12th January. The centre of the high pressure is to the west, over Ireland, so the air circulating clockwise will bring a cooler air steam from the north-northeast or northeast and will bring mainly dry weather with variable cloud.
