A high of 21.7C from a warm and sunny day was 3.6C above my 40-year average. The day was dry, the eleventh this month, and the UV high. The past night was mild as the temperature did not drop below 9.7C being 2.7C above the long-term average.
Saturday revealed a bright start to the day but no consistent, strong sunshine due to high cloud cover.
An anticyclone in mid-Atlantic is beginning to affect our weather as the recent depression fills and eases away. The barometric pressure has been slowly rising over the last three days with a reading of 1013.5mb at 08.00 with the thermometer reading 15.8C making it the warmest day at that time, this month.