Tuesday was a splendid day with much sunshine that although the wind came from the northwest, a cooler direction, saw the thermometer climb to a maximum of 10.6C at 14.32 being 2.3C above the long-term average. The UV strength rose to a peak of 1.5 between 12.00 and 14.00, the highest level since 31st October, so evidence that the sun is getter stronger. Therefore, it was not surprising that the level of daily evaporation from plant life and the ground was equivalent to a loss of 1.02mm of rainfall.
The warmth slowly dissipated during the evening, to level out just before midnight with a temperature of 2.9C, and reached a minimum of 2.7C at 04.10, being 0.9C above average. The temperature had recovered to 5.4C by 08.00 as the cloud had thickened ahead of the rain bands.
Two weather fronts have combined this morning to bring us a minor disturbance between the sunny days, that will moved eastwards, indicating a drier afternoon. The first rain drops were observed this morning at 06.35 with steady rain following that by 08.00 totalled 3.5mm with a couple of hours of rain still to come.
The forecast synoptic charts show an area of high pressure moving closer to the UK tomorrow, with a ridge developing across the country, which is likely to bring us a few dry and sunny days. This will form a blocking high fending off the forecast deep low pressure system developing to the northwest.