The mostly cloudy day meant the maximum temperature of 22.8C was only just above average and some 10C below the peaks a few days earlier. It was also the coolest day this month equaling that on the 5th. There were a couple of very brief, light showers that were not measurable, as the spots of rain disappeared quickly in the very dry air.
A large area of shower activity arrived from the south producing heavy rain that started at 16.55 and lasted until 18.15. The total rainfall amounted to 15.9mm, which was the wettest day since 16th March (16.4mm) with a peak rainfall rate equivalent to 38mm/hr.
Not surprisingly, in the more humid conditions, the daily evaporation that was running at over 4mm dropped to 1.35mm.
The overnight minimum of 16.1C gave us the warmest night since the 3rd (18.1C) being 4.4C above the average.
Wednesday dawned with total cloud cover and humidity registering 98%, the highest this month. The barometric pressure has begun to recover as the depression eases away with a pressure reading of 1011.3mb at 08.00, up 9mb over the past two days.
It is interesting to analyse the diurnal range of temperatures this month with which the human frame has had to adjust, day by day. The temperature variation between day and night on the 10th was 21.2C (30.6C and 9.4C) whereas by contrast the past 24-hours produced a very small range of just 5.0C (20.8C and 15.8C).