The worst of the weather on Friday was during the early hours with the strong winds gusting to 33mph and heavy rain. By mid-morning it had brightened up that allowed the thermometer to rise to a maximum of 10.0C at 13.59 being 2.9C above my long-term average. In fact the thermometer was up and down over the past twenty-four hours. At 21.30 the air temperature was 5.5C following that the temperature began to rise slowly reaching 7.5C at 01.30 early Saturday. This was obviously due to cloud cover arriving and backed up with the evidence of rainfall falling in that period, from 00.30 to 01.30, amounting to 1.3mm. From that time cloud obviously began to clear as the temperature began to fall away reaching a low of -0.1C at 08.00 under clear blue skies.
Saturday after dawn revealed clear skies and the evidence of a dry and sunny day as the barometric pressure has been rising due to Storm Éowyn easing away over Scandinavia. The barometric pressure has risen to 1004.5mb at 08.00 after the low of 988.2mb early Friday, a significant rise of 16mb.
The synoptic charts show another depression in mid-Atlantic heading our way with a track that will take it further south, the time over middle England. This depression, like Storm Eowyn, is forecast to deepen rapidly and bring strong winds and heavy rain on Sunday.
