The thermometer soared to 31.0C on Saturday at 15.34 making it the hottest day of the year and the hottest day since 19th July 2022 being a significant 12.1C above the average. There was very little wind, just the occasional burst to 10mph and from the southwest. The UV level was at the top end of Moderate.
The past night has been very warm with the thermometer not sinking below 16.2C, logged at 04.27 Sunday. This was 6.9C above average.
Sunday revealed more cloud and occasional weak sunshine to start the day. In fact large areas of thick cloud, with light rain, have been moving northwards just to the west of our area.
The thermometer at 08.00 read 20.1C making it the warmest start to a day at that time since 8th July. This is partly due to the cloud cover but particularly the residual warmth in the ground as at 08.00 the ground thermometer at a depth of 5cm read 20.4C.
Update: first rain this month began to fall at 09.02. However, the rain radar indicates more substantial showers are approaching from the south, that could hit us later in the morning, unless the wind direction changes from south at the moment.