Tuesday was a bright day with several hours of welcome sunshine that boosted the thermometer to a maximum of 10.0C at 13.26 being just 0.3C below the average, a very welcome dry and calm day after the turbulent weekend thanks to Storm Bert. The thermometer dropped away in the early hours to reach a minimum of 4.2C at 08.00 on Wednesday, just 0.2C above the average.
Overnight the cloud built up and the wind strengthened as Storm Conall, named by the Dutch Weather Service as they will suffer the greatest impact from it, passed over southern England with the first rainfall observed at 21.30 amounting to 7.9mm by 08.00. The pressure at the centre of the depression is still falling. That additional precipitation took the monthly rainfall above average for the first time in November reaching 95.9mm being 4mm above the 40-year average. The wind veered into the north in the early hours as Storm Conall drifted eastwards and strengthened producing wind chill again so that at 08.00 it felt more like 1C outside than the 4.2C indicated on the thermometer.
Wednesday struggled to come to life as the residual cloud and drizzle from the Storm Conall weather front draped the Marlborough Downs and Savernake Forest so a very dull and gloomy beginning to the new day. Storm Conall is slowly edging eastwards into the southern North Sea and then Denmark so gradually the cloud will lift, probably after midday, and the drizzle cease. The barometric pressure has fallen to 1000.9.mb at 8.00 but it is now beginning to rise again as a short lived ridge of high pressure begins to edge in to improve the weather for tomorrow.
Incidentally, the three new images on the website were taken in 1984 after the great storm that felled so many trees in Savernake Forest.
