After a bright start the thermometer rose to its highest to a maximum just before 10.30am. Temperatures usually rise during the daytime in summer with peaks during the afternoon. The highest temperature was 17.3C, the coolest day for two weeks and more than 2C below the average for June. The morning gave us 3.3 hours of bright sunshine but increasing cloud obscured the sun shortly after midday.
Just before 4.30pm a narrow band of heavy rain crossed the area, clearing by 5.30pm, producing the greatest rainfall this month of 1.8mm.
Overnight the thermometer fell to its lowest point at 03.49. This was due to increasing cloud and the wind, having been calm for several hours, began to pick up, peaking at 20mph.
The barometric pressure, having fallen for the past 20 hours, reached its lowest point at the time of readings this morning (08.00) but still falling, heralding a spell of wet and windy weather as a depression bears down on the country. The first rain started to fall just before 8 am.
Update at 15.30: Barometric pressure falling rapidly (1004mb). Wind rising steadily all day with maximum gust to 30mph.
