Thursday by day and night was exceptionally mild, bot well above average with extremes of 12.9C (+5.0C) and 9.4C (+7.1C). It was also another dry day, only the seventh this month. The notable feature was the strength of the wind, gusting to a peak of 37mph, thanks to Storm Pia travelling across the north of Scotland.
At 03.27 Friday we turned the corner and very, very slowly the days now begin to get longer.
Friday arrived with a mainly cloudy sky, just the odd brief break, with the wind still coming principally from the west northwest later in the day from the west, as we begin to come under the influence of an intense high anticyclone mid-Atlantic, The barometric pressure at 08.00 read 1014.3mb, up 6mb since Thursday. The wind will be less strong today, thankfully.
