The temperature hovered around 4C for many of the daylight hours with a minimum of 4.2C at 19.05. However, with Storm Éowyn approaching the temperature began to slowly rise reaching a maximum 10.6C at 06.49 early Friday. Usually the maximum is during the day and not overnight. This temporary warmer air made it the second warmest twenty-four hour period this month after 12.4C was logged on the 5th. The several hours of rain during the day stopped just after 13.00 with occasional, sharp showers midafternoon. A weather front crossed our area during the night that produced more rain from 01.10 to just before 07.00 early Friday totalling 17.7mm that took the monthly total to 68.2mm when the long-term average is 89.6mm.
Friday after first light revealed the back edge of the weather front easing away eastwards with the sky beginning to clear with the prospect of modest sunshine during Friday. The rain has stopped and the wind abated. The barometric pressure is beginning to rise rapidly as the centre of Storm Éowyn heads towards Scandinavia. By 09.00, under clearing skies, the temperature had dropped over 2C to reach 8.1C with a little wind chill making it feel like 7.8C outside.
Being some fifty miles inland, the strength of the wind is considerably diminished from that logged at the coast, due to it passing over the ground, trees and buildings that produce considerable friction.
The soil temperature at a depth of 5cm read 7.2C at 08.00 due to the warmer air late yesterday and overnight, which was the highest since the 1st (9.4C).
The track of Storm Éowyn was correctly predicted with the centre over Northern Ireland and Scotland. The pressure at 08.00 here was 988.2mb whereas in the north the pressure at the centre of the storm dropped to an exceptional 944mb. This explains why we only had a modest maximum gust of wind of 33mph at 02.27 early Friday.
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