Yesterday the southerly air boosted the temperature to a maximum of 16.1C (average for early May) just after noon with broken sunshine in the morning. The advancing cold front brought thick cloud in the afternoon with modest rain totalling 2.3mm.
As the cold front passed over around 17.00, the wind veered into a westerly direction and the sun came out again taking the total hours of strong sunshine yesterday to 2.28 hours.
This morning dawned with strong sunshine and a little high cloud with a temperature of 7.5C at 08.00.
The weather station of Marlborough, Wiltshire
