The thermometer struggled to reach a maximum of 5.3C on Thursday in the very brisk northwesterly breeze being 2.7C below the average. It was even colder overnight under clear skies initially, with a minimum of 1.3C at 01.47 early Friday that produced a ground frost. This low was 1.1C below average. It was a dry day with sufficient UV light to just trigger the UV sensor.
Friday after dawn revealed some broken cloud but it soon filled in before 08.00, with the thermometer having risen to 2.6C.
The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm had dropped to 2.0C by 08.00 as a result of the recent very much lower air temperatures by day and night.
The high-pressure continues to drive our weather, the barometric pressure having risen 15mb since yesterday, to 1022.0 mb by 08.00, with the wind having backed into the southwest and then west later in the day before increasing in strength over the weekend.
