Thursday was cool thanks to the predominantly cloudy conditions in the morning and brisk wind from the northwest that produced a wind chill again making it feel at least 1C colder outside than that indicated on a thermometer. The temperature reached a maximum 6.1C at 14.27 being 1.0C below the 40-year average. During the evening, after falling a couple of degrees, the temperature remained stable at around 4C but then after 00.30 it began to fall steadily reaching a low of 0.4C at 07.34 as the clouds began to thin, which was 0.9C below average and produced a ground frost again. The rain from Storm Ivo, named by the Portuguese Met Office, did stay predominantly to the south of the UK. The rain radar indicated that during the afternoon heavy rain reached as far north as Ringwood with brief light rain occasionally falling in Salisbury.
Friday welcomed a mainly blue sky with thin upper cloud. This was due to the back edge of the cloud from yesterday’s depression over France moving away and a ridge of high-pressure arriving.
A large high-pressure system in the Atlantic, centred near the Azores, has pushed a ridge of high pressure over the UK so a much quieter and fine day ahead, the barometric pressure having risen a significant 18mb since 08.00 on Thursday.
I referred to the recent storms yesterday being named alphabetically. However, the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are never used to a paucity of names that begin with these letters. It is only recently that the Met Office started naming storms, the first year was 2015. The idea of naming storms was to improve communication about severe weather by making it easier for the public to track and understand the potential impacts of a specific storm.
