Tuesday began at 08.00 with a temperature of 8.6C and was stable around that for much of the day. However, two warm fronts passed our way overnight that resulted in the temperature rising steadily during the evening after 21.00 reaching around 12C by midnight with a peak 12.6C at 08.00 Wednesday. This maximum was a significant 4.5C above the long-term average. The first spots of intermittent rain, from the weather fronts, were observed at 16.45 with much more overnight amounting to 4.2mm that took the monthly total to 44.4mm when the average is 94.0mm.
The start of Wednesday revealed a mainly cloudy sky with the wind gusting strongly and a maximum gust of 27mph logged at 06.09.
We are now firmly under a deep depression just off the coast of Scotland with the barometric pressure having dropped a significant 19mb in the past twenty-four hours with a reading of 1006.5mb at 08.00, which will mean a windy day, mainly from the southwest, with more rain likely later in the afternoon. Two cold fronts will pass our way later today that will see the temperature drop from the cold air that will follow them.
