Thankfully Friday was dry until just after midnight whilst the muted sunshine lifted the temperature to a peak of 11.7C at 14.02 before the cloud began to build. The breeze was brisk and from the east, a cold direction, thus another maximum that was below average (-2.4C) for April. The low overnight of 4.2C was logged at 02.51 before once again the cloud thickened as another weather front arrived.
Rain first triggered the automatic rain gauge at 01.30 and by 08.00 amounted to 9.5mm in the 5″ Met Office copper rain gauge, taking the monthly total to 54.6mm, just 2.5mm below my 40-year average.
Daylight on Saturday morning, such as it was under thick cloud and low light levels, as the rain continued to fall. The cold northeasterly and continuous thick cloud and later rain will mean a cold day with the thermometer unlikely to get into double figures.
The centre of the depression at midnight was over the Bay of Biscay but as the day progresses it is forecast to move northwards into the English Channel. As it closes in on the UK the associated fronts, two of them, will bring more rain later this afternoon and into the night with the wind increasing and from the north east.
