It was a degree warmer on Monday than Sunday although it didn’t feel like it as there was more of a breeze. The thermometer reached a maximum of 5.8C at 12.09 in the morning brightness but cloud then began to arrive that stopped any further sunshine and increase in temperature. The breeze picked up around midday with quite a flurry that produced a gust of 18mph at 12.15, the strongest air movement since Monday 6th. Very little warmth, such as there was, seeped into the atmosphere overnight thanks to the cloud cover with the thermometer only dropping 2C producing a minimum of 3.8C at 07.22 early Tuesday so the first night without a ground frost or air frost.
Tuesday arrived with total cloud cover as a weather front is tracking southwards with the cloud building during the late morning. The temperature had risen a little to 4.3C by 08.00.
The recent high pressure is still maintaining calm conditions with the recent cool air trapped beneath it although the warm air is slowly winning. The barometric pressure dropped just 4mb in the last twenty-four hours with a reading of 1035.6mb at 08.00, still very high.
Last week I logged how the continuing cold was slowly seeping into the ground. The last four days has seen the situation reverse with the ground temperature at a depth of 5cm rising slowly over the last four days with -1.8C, 0.3C, 0.4C and 1.1C today as the cold comes out of the ground but still having an effect on the air temperature. It was only two weeks ago, on the 1st, that the ground temperature at 08.00 and depth of 5cm read 9.4C.