The brief spells of weak sunshine, after the fog cleared on Monday, raised the thermometer to a peak of 7.2C at 14.10 making it the warmest day since last Thursday and just equal to the 40-year January average. This was an improvement after four days with below average maxima. Overnight the temperature eased downwards to reach a minimum of 1.6C at 07.37 early Tuesday that briefly produced a ground frost away from buildings and the town centre. It was a dry day with the UV peaking at 0.7.
Tuesday after first light revealed broken cloud that was quite high being such an improvement over the last week when each day had began with thick, low cloud. However, the latest radar shows cloud increasing from the west.
There are two depressions in the eastern Atlantic, just north of Scotland and the other west of Iberia, that are nudging our way but still kept at bay by the recent very high pressure system that is continuing to drop away, another 4mb fall over the last twenty-four hours. The bar,tricpressire at 08.00 was 1015.0mb, down a significant 26mb since last Sunday week.
The recent Arctic air over North America has been merging with tropical air from the Bay of Mexico producing a strong temperature contrast fuelling a very powerful Jet Stream, possibly as strong as 250mph. This will rush across the Atlantic likely bringing with it a very low-pressure system arriving on Friday that could be a new named storm.
Latest: Storm Eowyn recently named for the storm approaching on Friday
