Once again on Saturday, although we had many hours of sunshine, the strong north-northeast then easterly breeze pegged back the temperatures a little although a maximum of 18.6C at 15.58 was still 4.5C above my long-term average but down 3C on the very warm day on Friday. A peak gust of 24mph was logged with the UV level still at the top end of Moderate.
With a clear sky overnight it was not surprising to find that the thermometer dropped steadily to reach a minimum of 2.5C at 06.18 producing a widespread ground frost.
The sun began to shine strongly as soon as it rose above the horizon on Sunday lifting the temperature to 5.1C by 08.00. This is likely to be the last day when the wind from the east is strong, from Monday it will be lighter in strength, thankfully.
The dominant high pressure, that has been with us all month, is likely to continue to bring us dry and sunny days for much of the coming week, just a little relocation after midweek. The barometric pressure has risen 3mb since yesterday.
From time to time I read items in the press, from the weather forecasting site WXcharts, predictions of storms or recently last week on two separate days, snowfall of several inches, which I have never seen materialise. I was interested to read yesterday a comment from a Met Office spokeswomen “that many snow forecasts are based on “one-off simulations” indicating possible extreme weather. These, she said, form, “just one part of the wide range of information used to provide a full forecast picture”. “Different simulations produce different pictures of the weather forecast and one-off, single charts, do not provide the broader forecasting picture.
The picture was taken at Kennet Place during Marlborough in Bloom in 2015 when we were awarded Gold.