Yesterday the 11th was the gloomiest day for over a month. With thick cloud trapped under the anticyclone no ultra violet radiation was recorded and solar energy was the lowest since 5th January.
Not surprisingly with continuous cloud cover, the difference between maximum and minimum temperatures was just over 2C in the twenty-four hour period (5.1C to 2.6C). The humidity at 0800 was low at 84%, again the lowest for a month.
The pathway from The Green to town
The Green in Marlborough
The Green in Marlborough looking west across Herd Street.
29mm of rainfall overnight now almost record winter rainfall
With a total rainfall of 28.9mm during the last 24 hours the total for winter is now 432.6mm and just 1.4mm within the all time record of 434mm set in the winter of 1989/90.
January 2014 second wettest month on record
Not only is the rainfall total of 172.2mm to date the highest for any January month, beating the previous record of 147.3mm, but it is now the second wettest month ever recorded. The record for the wettest month was recorded in November 2002 with a total of 203.5mm.
