After a dry morning the rains returned starting at 13.50 on Friday amounting to 4.9mm, which took the monthly total to 43.1mm when the 40-year average is 61.4mm. The maximum of 14.1C was logged early in the day at 11.30 due to the increasing cloud after that time as the next weather front closed in on our area.
The skies cleared early evening that allowed the temperature to fall away to a minimum of 1.9C at 06.24 on Saturday. This was the coolest night for a week and produced a short-lived ground frost but not an air frost.
The ridge of high pressure that brought the clearer overnight skies will also mean a much drier and sunnier day on Saturday, certainly in the morning, than recently. The barometric pressure rose a significant 17mb since Friday with a reading of 1020.8mb at 08.00, the highest since the 7th. The sun that shone brightly after it rose above the horizon lifted the temperature to 6.3C by 08.00. It won’t last as another depression is closing in with its associated weather fronts due to cross the country later today and tomorrow.
