Saturday was a very wet and cold day with very sharp, brief showers well into the early evening adding another 8.3mm to the total for July, currently standing at 35.5mm when the average is 59.7mm. The wet, cloudy morning and very brisk wind front eh eat that had a northerly component in it, meant a cold day that saw the thermometer hover around 11C until the afternoon, which was 11C below the average. However, brief bursts of sunshine in the afternoon between the sharp showers lifted the temperature eventually to a maximum of 16.1C, but that was a significant 6.7C below my 40-year average. Clearer skies overnight meant anther below average night with a minimum of 9.4C at 03.47 being 2.5C below my 40-year average.
Sunday saw welcome sunshine after dawn but by 06.30 cloud drifted across and totally obscured any further sunshine. The unsettled weather is going to plague us for a few more days.
