Yet another dull, cloudy and overcast day on Tuesday. The maximum temperatures over the last four days have been slowly descending with 12.8C, 11.6C, 10.4C respectively with 10.1C on Tuesday, which was 0.2C below my 40-year average. It was a dry during daylight hours but thick cloud and drizzle decided in the evening producing 0.3mm of precipitation. There was even less air movement, a maximum of just 7mph was logged on one rare occasion. but the anemometer was stationary for long periods.
The diurnal temperature range was just 0.4C overnight with a minimum of 9.7C just after midnight.
The start to Wednesday was as on previous days with low, thick cloud producing light drizzle in the air.
The jet steam has been positioned to the north of the UK keeping the cooler air to the north away and maintaining the high pressure, the projection is that this will continue for a few more days.
The high pressure has been intensifying having risen 7mb since Tuesday with a pressure reading of 1030.6mb at 08.00.
